tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68080982928524715332024-03-16T01:12:18.093+00:00movealongnownothingtoseeherePaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04189222731384311257noreply@blogger.comBlogger566125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808098292852471533.post-56105372616976975222024-03-09T21:07:00.005+00:002024-03-09T22:04:08.784+00:00French Indian War and a painting update<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Last weekend was my first opportunity this year to visit Wyre Forest Gamers, we decided on a French Indian War flavoured game of Sharp Practice. All the models and terrain were from Henrik’s collection. The armies of France and English clashed in the Americas reinforced by local militias and native Indians.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlbDjY7wPFcuT7cvn91Mr3DFNeT6dpkv4h_1RG4HbDPRpp9rlk3X7-te9SlRl8TmwRrTnQDq_VbUJt7XEyXhzd_EaeiFChzeqYA92rSLG1QdH4faLA86eBFO6Rpx6cocTF_bXAccd4Bf62WUg1PRju1tq53u4ivnRUUrnHiCyQs6IKMzAhAFLwMtDCo5U/s4032/PXL_20240303_144418211.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlbDjY7wPFcuT7cvn91Mr3DFNeT6dpkv4h_1RG4HbDPRpp9rlk3X7-te9SlRl8TmwRrTnQDq_VbUJt7XEyXhzd_EaeiFChzeqYA92rSLG1QdH4faLA86eBFO6Rpx6cocTF_bXAccd4Bf62WUg1PRju1tq53u4ivnRUUrnHiCyQs6IKMzAhAFLwMtDCo5U/w640-h480/PXL_20240303_144418211.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The figures are mainly from the <a href="https://www.gallopingmajorwargames.co.uk/" target="_blank">Galloping Major</a> range, these are a larger junkier range and very paintable. My own collection are from Conquest Miniatures now sold by Warlord Games alas not really compatible.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Both of the large groups of infantry manoeuvred around the terrain but avoiding moving into musket range of the other. Meanwhile British Light Infantry had secured the building by the road and were very successful in repelling every assault against it. The accumulation of losses and push backed let to the collapse of the French morale.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho_zVMnqKJ2mHrrFqPAbacB9KXiD6S_QwZg1IAvOHK0yEOocBa8qMjI-aU2NOxBJsB4an6_pQxiIyppNSeq-bIIFNTuKgmuk_mAWQbT98n6vP3MXlkn4o6RfUHJwEl4YNfBb61gVA8OdgqAwiPehgm-p9cvbqVXqanXzPxf5How_fTJl2cXqhymVeCnfo/s4032/PXL_20240303_153747478.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho_zVMnqKJ2mHrrFqPAbacB9KXiD6S_QwZg1IAvOHK0yEOocBa8qMjI-aU2NOxBJsB4an6_pQxiIyppNSeq-bIIFNTuKgmuk_mAWQbT98n6vP3MXlkn4o6RfUHJwEl4YNfBb61gVA8OdgqAwiPehgm-p9cvbqVXqanXzPxf5How_fTJl2cXqhymVeCnfo/w640-h480/PXL_20240303_153747478.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>The Fireforge dwarf crossbowmen had lingered on my desk for too long, the command were painted alongside the goat riders. Unfortunately I didn’t enjoy painting these, i found the detail a little soft and surprisingly I could find no painted examples on the internet for inspiration.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhINFw1uGZ7LY8I94VWzFfwikNVjxEpECYtrrmQS_f2RbuqiOGEx44LRHL0qxiDIWfW8s_AD0Amn4D6uGo9hrzeo7a0SJQbdjN8AsIfmt2JIQ5vyHQvvhijGXwkw22hs8EMvjgIlyRlizC-sHwfbdw01SWxQGh6cXUpfoDiLVL4G4UA6C5FczgVscmQw58/s2980/IMG_4280.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="2980" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhINFw1uGZ7LY8I94VWzFfwikNVjxEpECYtrrmQS_f2RbuqiOGEx44LRHL0qxiDIWfW8s_AD0Amn4D6uGo9hrzeo7a0SJQbdjN8AsIfmt2JIQ5vyHQvvhijGXwkw22hs8EMvjgIlyRlizC-sHwfbdw01SWxQGh6cXUpfoDiLVL4G4UA6C5FczgVscmQw58/w640-h232/IMG_4280.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Rangers of Shadowdeep has a number of scenarios where players have to rescue captives. Having nothing suitable in the collection I went searching and found a seller on Ebay with some suitable models. These are 3D prints and and well sculpted and cleanly printed.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDr8nwMv6_VaJIS9U5XVhxXp0VBlfkhEttytzUCPLLnFBo_NgPPtv6bv4UPm1tj0gL-rQVTqmEGbesU5blCDM7iYM5ZhIOdCCEQKnDfst12ezWsO1Rm73ncdWkFqntLbJWwozhPmeyTSAucL8HHFX0EUggfMzKOmNxpwrS9ndtecyJeAAIzOKVB8LWDRY/s2798/IMG_4274.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1332" data-original-width="2798" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDr8nwMv6_VaJIS9U5XVhxXp0VBlfkhEttytzUCPLLnFBo_NgPPtv6bv4UPm1tj0gL-rQVTqmEGbesU5blCDM7iYM5ZhIOdCCEQKnDfst12ezWsO1Rm73ncdWkFqntLbJWwozhPmeyTSAucL8HHFX0EUggfMzKOmNxpwrS9ndtecyJeAAIzOKVB8LWDRY/w640-h304/IMG_4274.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>I didn’t want this many but I found the sellers prices baffling and in the end had the full set.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-tQaI2JBOYhZpYqeIQ8t6c_njHNbxjG__kd1ppAxkJ7925aNKlKaqabqGfUFkoff2W4ts8aseHfDlkBl3o_u6zHai_T-kuy6-X_PBSVwuucjs2qbEs2rqaIB0-ls_KtJNeFFrmV8k4rOmLZG8nHWXllkQCtddJKWPAnmS3ZgfuIvGJVD_Urn4Kmw7CHY/s2773/IMG_4277.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1429" data-original-width="2773" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-tQaI2JBOYhZpYqeIQ8t6c_njHNbxjG__kd1ppAxkJ7925aNKlKaqabqGfUFkoff2W4ts8aseHfDlkBl3o_u6zHai_T-kuy6-X_PBSVwuucjs2qbEs2rqaIB0-ls_KtJNeFFrmV8k4rOmLZG8nHWXllkQCtddJKWPAnmS3ZgfuIvGJVD_Urn4Kmw7CHY/w640-h330/IMG_4277.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>The basing is deliberately vague so as to suit the classic ‘dungeon’ or a medieval town square etc.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFOCG66N7D55Vir-Cu8Tj79wxGigrFXzboqS2iM1U6qVjWbcB2qNnvP8i8Z9n6_47rSDVRFhPQDze-TGLgJv8VIzxjn1qY8kiqOMiKLqeshFDkl_B4S4HFMJ3yl_gKjsTpEAMr7m72QZke6g8mXzQBk6RmVeTBfcXMaiNWiRhOUX7RGZcKDRxTsvE6uV0/s2847/IMG_4278.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1213" data-original-width="2847" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFOCG66N7D55Vir-Cu8Tj79wxGigrFXzboqS2iM1U6qVjWbcB2qNnvP8i8Z9n6_47rSDVRFhPQDze-TGLgJv8VIzxjn1qY8kiqOMiKLqeshFDkl_B4S4HFMJ3yl_gKjsTpEAMr7m72QZke6g8mXzQBk6RmVeTBfcXMaiNWiRhOUX7RGZcKDRxTsvE6uV0/w640-h272/IMG_4278.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">With these complete I’ve started on my small Samurai warband for Test of Honour, I’ll need to add a few more models to the force but I’m determined not to do so until these are painted.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">If like me you are looking for cheap painting inspiration I was recommended the book below, I’ve a number in this series and they are images of modern reenactors, at around £7 posted, excellent value.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDNbZc-ZA13gz6nGC4I2NRTj8cuguZsRHXIUYGTs2cAlQe7Z_YZsJ_wueC41a6RrdvhfCdtER6t6yQhPJs82Yb24Pd2i9r5lxILoSXn8dm-c7YCCfBGraMeQZD8qQTlCvsV2CmUzHGHt_uUCtJqGVMOtWetorv_F28QG9_tdose2UUBVyZVB68touhYdk/s1289/IMG_4282.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1289" data-original-width="942" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDNbZc-ZA13gz6nGC4I2NRTj8cuguZsRHXIUYGTs2cAlQe7Z_YZsJ_wueC41a6RrdvhfCdtER6t6yQhPJs82Yb24Pd2i9r5lxILoSXn8dm-c7YCCfBGraMeQZD8qQTlCvsV2CmUzHGHt_uUCtJqGVMOtWetorv_F28QG9_tdose2UUBVyZVB68touhYdk/w293-h400/IMG_4282.jpeg" width="293" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04189222731384311257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808098292852471533.post-53639263883054780022024-02-18T20:13:00.000+00:002024-02-18T20:13:32.609+00:00Wyrdstone in Warwickshire - a Mordheim all dayer<p> Recently I made the short trip across the county border into Warwickshire for a day of Mordheim gaming, this was quite an event for me as despite buying Mordheim on its release in 1999, I never got it to the table, we started on the terrain but it was an intimidating task back then and my undead warband became a full army in Warhammer Fantasy Battle and it never thought back to Mordheim.</p><p>With the release of Frostgrave in 2015, we were all thinking of it as the descendent of Mordheim, but its d20 mechanism was a little too swingy and its focus on the spellcasters left me wanting more. The explosion of MDF meant buildings, especially ruins were now easier to come by so over time I became more determined to make it happen, the 2nd hand 4x4 neoprene mat being the last part in the puzzle.</p><p>In the week running up to the event I still hadn't made up my mind which warband I would take, needing to work with what I had painted, I was thinking of Bretonnians, various mercenaries and Undead. In the end, Victor the Vampire had the call. My initial warband comprised a vampire, necromancer, three dregs, three ghouls, three zombies and two dire wolves.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6jyTPEuarav9dRG6uS52xYO-NU9mDgN1hYyIjF_rKgUt3rV4Xx_wWKrJ2ZLTtJtGOg7ZHUjEiToEaPfqbsXdp8gQcqoyPkLFrOfSbUK21yRb9Q9tujI9QoyvB2-552EbkQG61Ptm-Fcb04WSXYZwbhUpYROnJz6aGsEnQRNQnlXJJAVDdxdjS0NDo-DE/s4032/PXL_20240217_094237350.PORTRAIT.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6jyTPEuarav9dRG6uS52xYO-NU9mDgN1hYyIjF_rKgUt3rV4Xx_wWKrJ2ZLTtJtGOg7ZHUjEiToEaPfqbsXdp8gQcqoyPkLFrOfSbUK21yRb9Q9tujI9QoyvB2-552EbkQG61Ptm-Fcb04WSXYZwbhUpYROnJz6aGsEnQRNQnlXJJAVDdxdjS0NDo-DE/w640-h480/PXL_20240217_094237350.PORTRAIT.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Family group shot</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>I cut a couple of pieces of stiff coloured card to represent the interiors of the churches / temples, although I feel it didn't really work and I'll look at another way to represent the interiors.<div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaghTRY5QlhCsge3cU9KUNPBEofOkkz16KXN3v3HWBkiLu_3uAjbeqCEAVSFS5iDwrkMuIkouOcbrKq6Rp3MIpzJcRFyQSlNcvJAXaditmK0Bv6GgFwjDvpn7aMpBCDKv24bX9KY_aJoXM_-f1N8Y0udnOOB-1nAdZta_lvj_Xxwn8AZoED6h_hbv8Zxk/s4032/PXL_20240217_095053076.MP.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaghTRY5QlhCsge3cU9KUNPBEofOkkz16KXN3v3HWBkiLu_3uAjbeqCEAVSFS5iDwrkMuIkouOcbrKq6Rp3MIpzJcRFyQSlNcvJAXaditmK0Bv6GgFwjDvpn7aMpBCDKv24bX9KY_aJoXM_-f1N8Y0udnOOB-1nAdZta_lvj_Xxwn8AZoED6h_hbv8Zxk/w640-h480/PXL_20240217_095053076.MP.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">My table for the event</span></div><div><br /></div>The scenery on the table next door was originally built for the tables at Warhammer World, it had a great green tinge which gave the impression of nurgley root.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzn8QBq-R-i98eNbxKHW0rTjry5SnBtSYxOErNC9JbkXLb_-UvtKCmE87svlRFfEvhPiJbh76nwAFI0qffMD68njObh8d32N7ku7CpsKAb2SOROLDzVO9PGTtbHC4Oxr_aDMy8PTpv-fx6a6zXb3gFLjDDdCIDVgNpvGWH31ph0Zx7gsaL7wp14r2J3Lo/s4032/PXL_20240217_100939317.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzn8QBq-R-i98eNbxKHW0rTjry5SnBtSYxOErNC9JbkXLb_-UvtKCmE87svlRFfEvhPiJbh76nwAFI0qffMD68njObh8d32N7ku7CpsKAb2SOROLDzVO9PGTtbHC4Oxr_aDMy8PTpv-fx6a6zXb3gFLjDDdCIDVgNpvGWH31ph0Zx7gsaL7wp14r2J3Lo/w640-h480/PXL_20240217_100939317.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Another great table I got to play on which seemed to be constructed of MDF with embossed plastic card and 3d printed details. If you can see the vampire below, the two figures next to him went under the bridge after which I forgot about them for the rest of game!</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipX-0bGKvvJxSd7BeqR4DeO_PNO2ANi_k2Q3PJGZaqlRDwAmdA6e36zgv4owwhxYL8d2oiowDcLzHFPAhQrF3yBLtAJvnP-ov5Jyl2r1Efg4M1Rtm9HNICD7FvjqLGh5a0uFLvqWFjOV-ZyircRY-1i8BzstCwu5zCKPmD7MenCculttN7h-XBr887RQY/s4032/PXL_20240217_120122729.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipX-0bGKvvJxSd7BeqR4DeO_PNO2ANi_k2Q3PJGZaqlRDwAmdA6e36zgv4owwhxYL8d2oiowDcLzHFPAhQrF3yBLtAJvnP-ov5Jyl2r1Efg4M1Rtm9HNICD7FvjqLGh5a0uFLvqWFjOV-ZyircRY-1i8BzstCwu5zCKPmD7MenCculttN7h-XBr887RQY/w640-h480/PXL_20240217_120122729.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>This table won best table, as you can see loads of buildings and a very claustrophobic feel, a worthy winner.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRYY40BZyuCRZ78MqjLBNqTxRGEHYNZayTwa1uS4kuUfNT2ecn9kPxIJlp4D5Ene7CwdU9uBi8Fski8_GTtLk1h6AJf41hgV2RfcuN7EYLafe4FGiLdtg5yTVAbPm5_fKbaGQXcGpbEhsLaLMJnp_xcCyk5TNeHJHHsxw1LauYsLEZe81HsDq21hAuC4c/w640-h480/PXL_20240217_155156313.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Since the release of Empire in Flames, Mordheim can take place outside the city amongst the villages scattered across the wilderness of the Empire.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHSX7Ha5g0A_YfEFuytS01tFtogrjtZ80BcFwLHIFlJnYE-F65l6TSJJiUapFqrNnmGv5_xE-HmFxk5cXhXHNvsCpOHj7t_tJCp92LCKAO7D37FRXeMmMONjf5yhESg1bKMC_Wqh7uw6o-E0OcR5vExW4qlY_1mCJke464DwUyJXyj4BZZQGZhfnGbZ68/s4032/PXL_20240217_155202045.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHSX7Ha5g0A_YfEFuytS01tFtogrjtZ80BcFwLHIFlJnYE-F65l6TSJJiUapFqrNnmGv5_xE-HmFxk5cXhXHNvsCpOHj7t_tJCp92LCKAO7D37FRXeMmMONjf5yhESg1bKMC_Wqh7uw6o-E0OcR5vExW4qlY_1mCJke464DwUyJXyj4BZZQGZhfnGbZ68/w640-h480/PXL_20240217_155202045.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Another wilderness board, this one has the wizards tower I have stashed in the garage.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi11_LmHfk5RqVrShFLdOLMpNqBoH8cp3GR2nOYQSGqL4c-ULuUwsaDzPHvXM8HMo1cO9M30A4vBcpZJzCDZj8ap7jDLCD2sgqXBKQxA10-vsqxI9aUnPt25KWa34IFSG6JFMGcs8Pz28vqJM7rkUJhhuJuFLAZ75lsjEp1U5n0zDmlZ8_HGI3PkxH5EsQ/s4032/PXL_20240217_155229538.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi11_LmHfk5RqVrShFLdOLMpNqBoH8cp3GR2nOYQSGqL4c-ULuUwsaDzPHvXM8HMo1cO9M30A4vBcpZJzCDZj8ap7jDLCD2sgqXBKQxA10-vsqxI9aUnPt25KWa34IFSG6JFMGcs8Pz28vqJM7rkUJhhuJuFLAZ75lsjEp1U5n0zDmlZ8_HGI3PkxH5EsQ/w640-h480/PXL_20240217_155229538.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>I thought I'd show some of my favourite warbands, first up was Andy's Possessed warband. Some fantastic sculpted monstrosities here with extra arms and tails with stings.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOMQRkH7Jr268tiagYdLCP5h8gdKbaEAB4TSfGJAEtCIayYi1Rd74ulLeM5rpKp2pV0bxs6Tu-ydccAurfAQAi0NylEkLvbopX-M9SINRzwoh-vFsjYmkjkyn8zCR2bldX8JqKRO8j-ljVuVSfshnu-Jygn0AY4n8gs4LZuBVf5fDNq4_T8r0HQ10IAiI/s4032/PXL_20240217_114859036.MP.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOMQRkH7Jr268tiagYdLCP5h8gdKbaEAB4TSfGJAEtCIayYi1Rd74ulLeM5rpKp2pV0bxs6Tu-ydccAurfAQAi0NylEkLvbopX-M9SINRzwoh-vFsjYmkjkyn8zCR2bldX8JqKRO8j-ljVuVSfshnu-Jygn0AY4n8gs4LZuBVf5fDNq4_T8r0HQ10IAiI/w640-h480/PXL_20240217_114859036.MP.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>The abomination was magnificent, it's horrid but you can't not look at it.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFOKhYqvJmYBRXJ-P2eIWwMEvphrN3Jyz6Te5plRN9r3XywobM7zO1pn432KpyxjFmdYUX0RnAMCM6z-jZUP-_1UPGitbYmvQzz68UoWuH2iA_zs4VLa4HcFAQx_GWI3J0Qj5EjXHZyYKenJS-MPIcvXXLan007TkeSmhPaSWDGX-NMiAlWKyW8uPaiko/s4032/PXL_20240217_122311722.MP.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFOKhYqvJmYBRXJ-P2eIWwMEvphrN3Jyz6Te5plRN9r3XywobM7zO1pn432KpyxjFmdYUX0RnAMCM6z-jZUP-_1UPGitbYmvQzz68UoWuH2iA_zs4VLa4HcFAQx_GWI3J0Qj5EjXHZyYKenJS-MPIcvXXLan007TkeSmhPaSWDGX-NMiAlWKyW8uPaiko/w480-h640/PXL_20240217_122311722.MP.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Beastmen Brayherd</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ1Qnapj11QiZeFOSjQJem3yuiRROphnF3T_4-3Uee8KSDPanXqPoEDwS31J8Xu3GFAQhbmOH1HIBlMR9PpQoxtUHhXmdVXW1Lqs5HZ4bEuG88fD_hk-ZVAVfhospdBYtdUZ_VYC58HLXKQR0jvit03akIUWxcpp0JZsJ3cQjPxqjcxdrJQiQsph8Q4oM/s3737/PXL_20240217_133724159.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2633" data-original-width="3737" height="450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ1Qnapj11QiZeFOSjQJem3yuiRROphnF3T_4-3Uee8KSDPanXqPoEDwS31J8Xu3GFAQhbmOH1HIBlMR9PpQoxtUHhXmdVXW1Lqs5HZ4bEuG88fD_hk-ZVAVfhospdBYtdUZ_VYC58HLXKQR0jvit03akIUWxcpp0JZsJ3cQjPxqjcxdrJQiQsph8Q4oM/w640-h450/PXL_20240217_133724159.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Empire Mercenaries</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz7Cu-C-7ardZlt__c9yCwL-5BF44yDSdWaVh4MD9kq0kCMkNe5lUdVHaDe7vwzhBL4Vt05Cw44izv0rdklE-qkWgosEfYiRnLiryW3mykSjqiLQxnI0kUF3nYkiAWz1wxuY1p5j4lGsx9N5zBljm1E3r2XhuvROXPaRpesFES9pY_Om6HY6XqPxieFfQ/s4032/PXL_20240217_133732408.MP.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1645" data-original-width="4032" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz7Cu-C-7ardZlt__c9yCwL-5BF44yDSdWaVh4MD9kq0kCMkNe5lUdVHaDe7vwzhBL4Vt05Cw44izv0rdklE-qkWgosEfYiRnLiryW3mykSjqiLQxnI0kUF3nYkiAWz1wxuY1p5j4lGsx9N5zBljm1E3r2XhuvROXPaRpesFES9pY_Om6HY6XqPxieFfQ/w640-h262/PXL_20240217_133732408.MP.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">More Empire Mercenaries and a Frostgrave Ogre.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1qkRDk7FMS9wlbkzwkniRz72jEyDad_6cLQMqlSYiF3_efnx-OnO5fwYmBBfQiLDyXKkE3u5id9DK083d9KUyjXaYoJTPbi4iY47GL5YR4wADi5nObyOiCkV01ulEAic3RZpw_6nmsgHkxS3AGih5UGaEytLnFTODvT8Xo8ftzPXsZjDDfGpuKnUAGOo/s3807/PXL_20240217_133743959.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1823" data-original-width="3807" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1qkRDk7FMS9wlbkzwkniRz72jEyDad_6cLQMqlSYiF3_efnx-OnO5fwYmBBfQiLDyXKkE3u5id9DK083d9KUyjXaYoJTPbi4iY47GL5YR4wADi5nObyOiCkV01ulEAic3RZpw_6nmsgHkxS3AGih5UGaEytLnFTODvT8Xo8ftzPXsZjDDfGpuKnUAGOo/w640-h306/PXL_20240217_133743959.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">After the end of a long day I drove home with my head buzzing with ideas of running a local campaign, great stuff. Days like this are always great, I prefer narrative play over tournaments every time.</div><br /></div>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04189222731384311257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808098292852471533.post-79454202355628457162024-02-15T21:12:00.001+00:002024-02-15T21:12:00.131+00:00Forgotten Kickstarters 2 - Goblin Hood<p>Received back in March 2017 this kickstarter comprised a small number of Goblin miniatures from Macrocosm, a company located only a few miles away from me in Tewkesbury. Since I've had these figures stored safely in the garage the range has been sold to <a href="https://www.checkpointminiatures.co.uk/product-category/28mm-ranges/28mm-fantasy/goblin-hood/" target="_blank">Checkpoint Miniatures</a> (formerly CP models) along with a 2nd project expanding the range that I completely missed. If you think the faces look familiar they were all sculpted by the legendary Kev Adams and used under licence.</p><p>I’ve gone again with the yellow green skin that worked well with the earlier goblins and Oathmark orcs, first up the spear pack.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5uC2GU58rwOFoMBQD1UhZG06o2FFzvJVVEBnwZX9ZVk45TA-EgLgaj1lfsPSnKmkQd51qijIP1JybH3M5HUloVvu5at9MZ0BlzObMxybMoio_n1bZjZF-_yACH13FTX99fRkqy7gvNZb8xbtt4YfgTAVQh7jbI39TVeskFecXmfUU-drsrNWBrMEjMHI/s4032/PXL_20240213_164936260.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1364" data-original-width="4032" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5uC2GU58rwOFoMBQD1UhZG06o2FFzvJVVEBnwZX9ZVk45TA-EgLgaj1lfsPSnKmkQd51qijIP1JybH3M5HUloVvu5at9MZ0BlzObMxybMoio_n1bZjZF-_yACH13FTX99fRkqy7gvNZb8xbtt4YfgTAVQh7jbI39TVeskFecXmfUU-drsrNWBrMEjMHI/w640-h216/PXL_20240213_164936260.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Goblin archers are always useful, here’s the second pack.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1453" data-original-width="4032" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS3lL_6Elszytlap2TnFlWUWk42d0tqhEY3nmtel4N41AwHVsUeFp2rRqkmFXCcK5j-ZegUIG2uLTytS5jUsmb2gjtUZdIQ70DRAihgjNV6a3jxHqwLRkaGHo0DIDYRjGHsdXOZ8qbaT_ElOlRcTWnSh1LUfxPKYFwl2oV1FJ7oUgpraq8j2MZBjzumQg/w640-h230/PXL_20240213_165030457.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>To wrap up the goblins, some command figures including the eponymous Robin Hood goblin, at the end of the group is a stretch goal but as the project was some years ago I can’t make any sense of Kickstarter.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQrxMPBvj73XvqlSTTXcp5BERljNgOHAVca_GlLudQZJNRY98icjP_EbFo3kKHLe0l7VBoLDL0Oi-tl5yjTs9hI3EVphUGrXAT3Q_N_H4dTTviVcoBh_ooWbUXEJDg1zqVuk16sHSiqjNMwPWp4fq3cPYPZg4MkYmzVNkDnTwZSm_n1ofICFd14ar4rm4/s4032/PXL_20240213_165120712.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1660" data-original-width="4032" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMtWbwybiaqPBifxsEd5IyANjlwVwkNDNpYaGeOq0G-02ekNQUblayeTSc1kglwfKDMbL4Sj44xTG4K9kQwKHLDCVxql6h8g-MrkLfDy0O6SycJSKU7ov89Xt33TDbJ1QV1QP2qhyXHmq1gvG4c24Dq6czspQYD_2Ahc26JqX7rdC1SUNUClYOYUeHhzc/w640-h264/PXL_20240213_165207219.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Next up will be a post on my day playing Mordheim.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04189222731384311257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808098292852471533.post-78322736276261129762024-02-12T21:13:00.002+00:002024-02-12T21:13:57.775+00:00A forgotten Orc Army<p>Last year we lost Dane and I wanted something from his collection to remember him by, unknown to me, he had the makings of an old school Warhammer Orc and Goblin army. My plan is to, where possible, to enhance his paint jobs and rebase them in a consistent style, looking at the models I am thinking these were purchased in the 1980s, so this post is a before, check back later for progress.</p><p>First up is "<a href="http://www.solegends.com/citrr/1rr05harboth/index.htm" target="_blank">Harboth and the Black Mountain Boys</a>" released in 1984, and sold as a box of identical models and a command figure.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0E10KdK5j1KA1nJxMg_kAxZX-O6Syy6F3ipAkFx6Hx8PhtO3NDhpLb9obVJJ12qt9uqcX9RvKgeKJE6wM2l6E8ZhetbCaPzGlX3I2oSElC_1LahYQijsAQ8z3-oTvH3iiO6bL0Zh-KA2DiEP6weTyWl7QrCO1T1f69OMjt-rWifkPe1353CIjDp5HdGw/s3683/PXL_20240211_150437858.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1748" data-original-width="3683" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0E10KdK5j1KA1nJxMg_kAxZX-O6Syy6F3ipAkFx6Hx8PhtO3NDhpLb9obVJJ12qt9uqcX9RvKgeKJE6wM2l6E8ZhetbCaPzGlX3I2oSElC_1LahYQijsAQ8z3-oTvH3iiO6bL0Zh-KA2DiEP6weTyWl7QrCO1T1f69OMjt-rWifkPe1353CIjDp5HdGw/w640-h304/PXL_20240211_150437858.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Uncharted Seas was a fun game, alas Spartan Games had moved on from it before they collapsed due to the issues with Microsoft and their Halo licence.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ84Te8WYJlmQUET_DqgBRBbh44Pvk4XFeWWTZduFOfrdJGaoAjd4p8HYDnfj1oWZ1sVgyEOdEsa7D0wlkQ30hJg-XJkb35km0uWYTECMi3KbCciXjIdwDwtbI20RmcOQ5hAJQ8bGqFtYnLWOUGaz47_I85E2R_ikU-61v4SWM4Tt5JcUtjAoal4f5FQM/s2818/IMG_4160.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2446" data-original-width="2818" height="556" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ84Te8WYJlmQUET_DqgBRBbh44Pvk4XFeWWTZduFOfrdJGaoAjd4p8HYDnfj1oWZ1sVgyEOdEsa7D0wlkQ30hJg-XJkb35km0uWYTECMi3KbCciXjIdwDwtbI20RmcOQ5hAJQ8bGqFtYnLWOUGaz47_I85E2R_ikU-61v4SWM4Tt5JcUtjAoal4f5FQM/w640-h556/IMG_4160.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04189222731384311257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808098292852471533.post-67078405617545524472024-02-04T17:06:00.002+00:002024-02-04T17:06:00.165+00:00The Sands of Sudan<p>This week's midweek game was my first run through <a href="https://www.caliverbooks.com/bookview.php?8a10ia89rs8ipqquuu00hb43i0&id=27069" target="_blank">The Sands of Sudan</a>, published by Caliver Books, this is a rule set based on the surviving notes from the games run by the great Peter Gilder at his Scarborough Wargames Holiday Centre. This material has been compiled and completed by Carlo Pagano and included a event deck.</p><p>The original rules were based on the <a href="https://www.baccus6mm.com/catalogue/WargamesRules/PonyWars/" target="_blank">Pony Wars</a> rules, written by Ian Beck and now republished by Baccus. These rules set players against an opponent controlled by reaction tables and a card event deck.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFbh_umVwmyvQD0D7Ib5btovGRwOjBe5U42MKlvANg5Fks4sbm_Duk3UnBXozQg9Qv0maQP-tKvk_HFdDz3k2lKuBDeqwQqdkyosXCl3fBvkV0UKlMS2031TAdEohbGoPTNtqODu0bn0CMP2RsjZUxFPyFZAiZt-EHbTKKaWCCxMPhyphenhyphenE2EaZK5Btz2KdM/s3264/IMG_4126.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="2448" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFbh_umVwmyvQD0D7Ib5btovGRwOjBe5U42MKlvANg5Fks4sbm_Duk3UnBXozQg9Qv0maQP-tKvk_HFdDz3k2lKuBDeqwQqdkyosXCl3fBvkV0UKlMS2031TAdEohbGoPTNtqODu0bn0CMP2RsjZUxFPyFZAiZt-EHbTKKaWCCxMPhyphenhyphenE2EaZK5Btz2KdM/w300-h400/IMG_4126.HEIC" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The scenario pits a small column of Highlanders, Lancers, Sudanese and Egyptians against the forces of the Madhi. The column needed to reach the oasis at the top of the table, the opposite end of the table was held by the gunboat Sapphire and it's Royal Marines. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin1rWzcHufBC5Oz4Xy9ldS7QrdJ5DCprl4lqZohj2UokJobrTynqYAdHw4tiUnrNcvgN7vKE7pV7oZ5ZONwi5x3KniuZ0lRAu1X3fjeIsmCgraN2zVEqJvLtIKnEHYvOn_O_DO5Pb1IL2bFXUCH5RdTiEEFXYhyebGduUBZeNBxzz9Lc0NXRZih5bG30c/s3264/IMG_4108.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin1rWzcHufBC5Oz4Xy9ldS7QrdJ5DCprl4lqZohj2UokJobrTynqYAdHw4tiUnrNcvgN7vKE7pV7oZ5ZONwi5x3KniuZ0lRAu1X3fjeIsmCgraN2zVEqJvLtIKnEHYvOn_O_DO5Pb1IL2bFXUCH5RdTiEEFXYhyebGduUBZeNBxzz9Lc0NXRZih5bG30c/w640-h480/IMG_4108.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The column sets off with one of the companies of Sudanese acting as skirmishers to scout out any ambushes on the table. The first of the event cards is drawn and a unit of Mahdist camelry enters the table.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtzSwBjnBg5-4m3vITtUKmD4OhwSZGx90IEFdti-L4yn5pqnKeGbp899QxnVCo591izwXU9fpen18mr6rJr-pbLRniHMESHjfYVsrQd5rDCNDkBM0AiQ2ANfH_O0sPY9LljoSl5w6ptf-XjKhZDIBhHcncA2EHOkQhHC_BvYACitb_1SDru2aUYIpGQho/s3264/IMG_4109.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtzSwBjnBg5-4m3vITtUKmD4OhwSZGx90IEFdti-L4yn5pqnKeGbp899QxnVCo591izwXU9fpen18mr6rJr-pbLRniHMESHjfYVsrQd5rDCNDkBM0AiQ2ANfH_O0sPY9LljoSl5w6ptf-XjKhZDIBhHcncA2EHOkQhHC_BvYACitb_1SDru2aUYIpGQho/w640-h480/IMG_4109.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The mahdists were in cannon range and the Sapphire opens fire, causes several casualties forcing them to take cover behind the hill.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbGkULLoDojksnCfp1F041p2YnnMSclRcSY1JvQApMQbl4dCymXdFusNj16dTJq6HDWvd5tXSkoyZcFlnpA6CkVubKDC_qGFiWcrRLJVwXOLFSR6UswwpxtbWGTiug5EtR4WQ7tEMbjz7Mu3KUZu2atLflOZCMI9VsjjmVaaw-1L5PIRtvsO-uI5h5fD8/s3264/IMG_4110.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbGkULLoDojksnCfp1F041p2YnnMSclRcSY1JvQApMQbl4dCymXdFusNj16dTJq6HDWvd5tXSkoyZcFlnpA6CkVubKDC_qGFiWcrRLJVwXOLFSR6UswwpxtbWGTiug5EtR4WQ7tEMbjz7Mu3KUZu2atLflOZCMI9VsjjmVaaw-1L5PIRtvsO-uI5h5fD8/w640-h480/IMG_4110.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Another group enters the table on the following turn whilst the column continues its slow advance.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUtjkiyeBZYwjo-tmrYGQle29hmO6gi7bPGrq3e-hRWhvNserkCZsazc-uNPNULr63xmhOtn4rwupIL-2sQx-0E4L5ksAv3AmUzoiesrykBMT90SFSlsdA8GtaLdfjnGMy2uxL5jo35jDw9uouJwMkDNs2ONt_m_lVap6kIwrgP0dMtDIby3Q_2h7C8Qw/s3264/IMG_4111.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUtjkiyeBZYwjo-tmrYGQle29hmO6gi7bPGrq3e-hRWhvNserkCZsazc-uNPNULr63xmhOtn4rwupIL-2sQx-0E4L5ksAv3AmUzoiesrykBMT90SFSlsdA8GtaLdfjnGMy2uxL5jo35jDw9uouJwMkDNs2ONt_m_lVap6kIwrgP0dMtDIby3Q_2h7C8Qw/w640-h480/IMG_4111.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>The Lancers form line incase the mahdist cavalry regain their nerve and charge home whilst the Sudanese skirmisher open up scouting a potential ambush point. Meanwhile Mahdist riflemen enters the table.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq_uNyv8FbDDwwJ-vqOcOYcfXc_ZugXe00wYAQdVgZpdsCQpMxr5Yfc-koNokbAuu1t1yIoKIxdBUQ-m2LVnR-fYiv4c2c337oMrlvsla4jJDjmgqZmo4ZfuXF5tYHj9KgsnLizk5MN2AxlOcPiLhLclAjoyKcKVkm2rWOkewvCnlkR8Sv7tlR2Fc67Cs/s3264/IMG_4113.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq_uNyv8FbDDwwJ-vqOcOYcfXc_ZugXe00wYAQdVgZpdsCQpMxr5Yfc-koNokbAuu1t1yIoKIxdBUQ-m2LVnR-fYiv4c2c337oMrlvsla4jJDjmgqZmo4ZfuXF5tYHj9KgsnLizk5MN2AxlOcPiLhLclAjoyKcKVkm2rWOkewvCnlkR8Sv7tlR2Fc67Cs/w640-h480/IMG_4113.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Emboldened by troops springing their ambush from the palm grove, the madhists camels begin to climb the hill.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4vZGiMk9XT3-mX-to91VX8PI3AUF2NVqTHp6O8p4O3N7JCBVAGRK7TQxh-ene4weFC6CR2SyeMZ9QkMQZ8UO8XPRQcyYmWPqJQHVJDOnxX2m0n4d3slHn_GRIVzh3Y0usdgt03L1PS94mUFK20G0sQnE8Qhdye460yc5XYp8ZMSmziEAA3Hq_AJB9FbY/s3264/IMG_4115.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4vZGiMk9XT3-mX-to91VX8PI3AUF2NVqTHp6O8p4O3N7JCBVAGRK7TQxh-ene4weFC6CR2SyeMZ9QkMQZ8UO8XPRQcyYmWPqJQHVJDOnxX2m0n4d3slHn_GRIVzh3Y0usdgt03L1PS94mUFK20G0sQnE8Qhdye460yc5XYp8ZMSmziEAA3Hq_AJB9FbY/w640-h480/IMG_4115.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The unit of spearmen gain the high ground causing a company of Highlanders to leave the column to cover their flank, the skirmishers ineffectively exchange fire with the mahdists. A group of Beja tribesmen enter the table near the oasis.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLiaaPL-L5QRUu1WdFlIxHanZBBXJ1iObdkRmaGP2ahL7zRwiuKtv0g8nicuhx46euN6yXHTFVewh_EcfS7MdsWIxwJgaVExPwZ30n-QxPnWRf_Vgop3EW3Ea5F2OqTKjeI8RhKMkiYcUYVfuYnsAY-QFCsZL95oxdH__afztBv88eLY6iTEeJ0HN-8Nc/s3264/IMG_4117.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLiaaPL-L5QRUu1WdFlIxHanZBBXJ1iObdkRmaGP2ahL7zRwiuKtv0g8nicuhx46euN6yXHTFVewh_EcfS7MdsWIxwJgaVExPwZ30n-QxPnWRf_Vgop3EW3Ea5F2OqTKjeI8RhKMkiYcUYVfuYnsAY-QFCsZL95oxdH__afztBv88eLY6iTEeJ0HN-8Nc/w640-h480/IMG_4117.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>One of the mechanisms within the card deck is the drawing of a drum card, once the drums starts, all forces entering the table use the larger second value. Another large group of cavalry enter the table - a large number of figures is needed for this game.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVgy7UApZhJimzBZ1iiSQjnDiV7C7OkULT5yWpzNujzYZNw2a1d9maYSS7RMUanNThoKo3cJp4stqxKGK-8K86dLt2QvD-Bzm0Q-S9iZCdVgHHJ4Vwmr7uKHAtvM_d6G7yWZgexesbcyWs3pO67D3_9I_yB8lzwfG7_ywulG_m62zKSS-vUV3jq_zN9sM/s3264/IMG_4118.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVgy7UApZhJimzBZ1iiSQjnDiV7C7OkULT5yWpzNujzYZNw2a1d9maYSS7RMUanNThoKo3cJp4stqxKGK-8K86dLt2QvD-Bzm0Q-S9iZCdVgHHJ4Vwmr7uKHAtvM_d6G7yWZgexesbcyWs3pO67D3_9I_yB8lzwfG7_ywulG_m62zKSS-vUV3jq_zN9sM/w640-h480/IMG_4118.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>A poor reaction roll from the cavalry on the hill forces them to run off the table, meanwhile the spearmen are charging forward towards the Highlanders.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdwP2nubSBhPIszTKjDqZD_9KH8NB23xzelgIO3OLLuUmTxrbjsGbFewl9oy4bSchrLG61_eRLirS8Z13lgRRDI7Q-BrImP01G-icSRCPf3K8XG1v1H2MHH5zWIeyaLrHTw4JIg-94I3o3zhHGWqOmRdWSNxJa5ZaZVJ3ApV1rIklk0zVcvIzUVAmQxXQ/s3264/IMG_4119.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdwP2nubSBhPIszTKjDqZD_9KH8NB23xzelgIO3OLLuUmTxrbjsGbFewl9oy4bSchrLG61_eRLirS8Z13lgRRDI7Q-BrImP01G-icSRCPf3K8XG1v1H2MHH5zWIeyaLrHTw4JIg-94I3o3zhHGWqOmRdWSNxJa5ZaZVJ3ApV1rIklk0zVcvIzUVAmQxXQ/w640-h480/IMG_4119.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>The mahdist riflemen continue towards the center of the table, the shooting there is still ineffective.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDocxORjErvm-L53YanFaAQhhUW5fVxEucYy4BQVWbWNRacVi9SMhYIBCruyYzf6Hq4mMD8R9DhRcuYuKbTYfoEJE_i_W_MF_5WCdPbpQRb-uGYOBEXL0oAFb-wFh0xo0C4PDyOdszN9wm3ifpIDmU0NOOiytVlP9AFwiuxx5TG-yoEp1W7uJ3E9xuJ-Y/s3264/IMG_4120.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDocxORjErvm-L53YanFaAQhhUW5fVxEucYy4BQVWbWNRacVi9SMhYIBCruyYzf6Hq4mMD8R9DhRcuYuKbTYfoEJE_i_W_MF_5WCdPbpQRb-uGYOBEXL0oAFb-wFh0xo0C4PDyOdszN9wm3ifpIDmU0NOOiytVlP9AFwiuxx5TG-yoEp1W7uJ3E9xuJ-Y/w640-h480/IMG_4120.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The highlanders prepare their volley fire whilst two companies of Egyptians form line accompanied by a cannon. Huge volleys hit the spearmen.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoOMWUCY7i0btB_KG6tbYXT8WiDuoxBwNgkg-ZSrHWb9oFa91z25YX8z-VJXGRJCL6v42DpBlnYW5RofXAZWUUZ3-Qap7tUzjkig-Zwfh2_x6Et8ufUBt4d9bGrbXuUblfi-yOsgx2XqQj13YOg6NroZGXiTTO3oKPjz9dsfCbTMBf11mvgWWml3LV_fA/s3264/IMG_4122.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoOMWUCY7i0btB_KG6tbYXT8WiDuoxBwNgkg-ZSrHWb9oFa91z25YX8z-VJXGRJCL6v42DpBlnYW5RofXAZWUUZ3-Qap7tUzjkig-Zwfh2_x6Et8ufUBt4d9bGrbXuUblfi-yOsgx2XqQj13YOg6NroZGXiTTO3oKPjz9dsfCbTMBf11mvgWWml3LV_fA/w640-h480/IMG_4122.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>The effect at point blank range is devastating, the survivors retire never to play any meaningful part in the rest of the game.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpa06y3InB3O1PbqR2VbnmURGcoVaFb8Lun0_36Lwi5cdiBTD7bxGS84x5pYFEkRmJg1stHbpKqYFw9PQB328NnuS6kNbuBeuOp70XbE5vi3HwFSPyT8c-C87pxRmwJDAVDoNBj3WBdSqtsCeaW4TyCnh3qCpFMwDUzHBlrQ_OYJ-Grs8K9-HZpd5mtPQ/s3264/IMG_4123.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpa06y3InB3O1PbqR2VbnmURGcoVaFb8Lun0_36Lwi5cdiBTD7bxGS84x5pYFEkRmJg1stHbpKqYFw9PQB328NnuS6kNbuBeuOp70XbE5vi3HwFSPyT8c-C87pxRmwJDAVDoNBj3WBdSqtsCeaW4TyCnh3qCpFMwDUzHBlrQ_OYJ-Grs8K9-HZpd5mtPQ/w640-h480/IMG_4123.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>As more mahdists enter the table the British Commander attempts to get the column back together. Another group of ansar enter the table and climb the hill threatening the lancers.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkn-g4_xCt9NFGrpIcbv-WZjIuXmjyfQtCSDRM18PIFS1hALdm-6bPKQ11dqOwDqLTcJUW32ZueEr0EhD3UUnLhobFwbrgF90nBBjxxcec_GJCP5xLhdtHFCWtiFOsPoik22rwXsR4IqmTqANu99OqH5UTDNPDkipGKEqLxTIVDG555YWzTaY-tPMFHME/s3264/IMG_4124.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkn-g4_xCt9NFGrpIcbv-WZjIuXmjyfQtCSDRM18PIFS1hALdm-6bPKQ11dqOwDqLTcJUW32ZueEr0EhD3UUnLhobFwbrgF90nBBjxxcec_GJCP5xLhdtHFCWtiFOsPoik22rwXsR4IqmTqANu99OqH5UTDNPDkipGKEqLxTIVDG555YWzTaY-tPMFHME/w640-h480/IMG_4124.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>It became obvious that were weren't going to reach an outcome, I decided to throw the lancers in, the impact was impressive driving the ansar back.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUpbmU2O8-VAeFQ3ZeT0kw0nXOgVZAMcycJS33J_SrqC-pvSyPO8-FeT07Dnx5uUM6VmZGcB45K4PjTjAsWpd04Xt3ZJLvUUnWFJeej383UokCQRkFhFtpI80u_sGHOtlCDkSwSG3WgoQl5nrbFDR-M_uzMvpk-4uj-Scdt0g4QAnFPvwIFNgV666VpcU/s3264/IMG_4125.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUpbmU2O8-VAeFQ3ZeT0kw0nXOgVZAMcycJS33J_SrqC-pvSyPO8-FeT07Dnx5uUM6VmZGcB45K4PjTjAsWpd04Xt3ZJLvUUnWFJeej383UokCQRkFhFtpI80u_sGHOtlCDkSwSG3WgoQl5nrbFDR-M_uzMvpk-4uj-Scdt0g4QAnFPvwIFNgV666VpcU/w640-h480/IMG_4125.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Over all a great experience that gives a game that could be played solo or cooperatively, an umpire isn't essential but can help keep the game moving through some of its more crunchy rules like shooting, melee and unit reactions. We are planning a multi player game for it's next play through.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04189222731384311257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808098292852471533.post-57305342001532994392024-02-03T14:54:00.000+00:002024-02-03T14:54:02.845+00:00Forgotten Kickstarters - Mantic Terrain Crates<p> Back in February 2019 I backed Mantic Games <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/manticgames/terraincrate-2-crate-expectations/description" target="_blank">TerrainCrate 2</a> kickstarter which was delivered in July 2020, since then I'd had the dead trees from one of the packs and the rest had sat in the garage in a box.</p><p>Recently, working on terrain for Mordheim, I remembered one of the packs was Morneville church and contained pieces which would work with my GW Garden of Morr as well as pieces which I could use as interior ruins and debris.</p><p>The terrain is produced in a robust plastic which will certainly stand up to play, there is occasional warping but nothing that would cause a problem. As usual pieces are primed and painted.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb8_bqQAHzh2ErjIJod65MZZcSMqjAQt_tf5TDJ04mctq3X7BVaD_33W5gigImcwxKDABGN-94B9dT9scHS9muR-ZhVZa6ZjPa573XCI8EOjiFffZ78xiDiKloDAh4IboF3LGbXjPZdpUbcBVoHf445nPbyTkNoN-1TWNgEybjqK74ywUIHb2SyZwbqBw/s2855/IMG_4145.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1759" data-original-width="2855" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb8_bqQAHzh2ErjIJod65MZZcSMqjAQt_tf5TDJ04mctq3X7BVaD_33W5gigImcwxKDABGN-94B9dT9scHS9muR-ZhVZa6ZjPa573XCI8EOjiFffZ78xiDiKloDAh4IboF3LGbXjPZdpUbcBVoHf445nPbyTkNoN-1TWNgEybjqK74ywUIHb2SyZwbqBw/w640-h394/IMG_4145.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04189222731384311257noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808098292852471533.post-39630280609381322202024-02-01T17:05:00.002+00:002024-02-01T17:05:52.363+00:00More Mordheim Terrain<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">After our recent game of The Silver Bayonet (see Stu's blog for another game report - <a href=" http://dusttears.blogspot.com/2024/01/brigand-cages-of-rincon-del-diablo.html" target="_blank"> http://dusttears.blogspot.com/2024/01/brigand-cages-of-rincon-del-diablo.html</a>) I decided we needed more debris and barricades on the table. I spent some time on eBay having a search around and found a seller <a href="https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/cncuniverse" target="_blank">https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/cncuniverse</a> who sold the Hagglethorn and Clorehaven barricades.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">These are printed with a PLA 3d printer, that's the sort that prints from a spool of plastic filament, this sort of printer isn't good for miniatures but provides a good print for terrain pieces. The whole order fitted on a single build plate and was easily removed and cleaned up. These were primed and sprayed then painted with a variety of paints and a given a black wash.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">To me it's evident that these pieces would have been better printed with black filament as there are a number of quite inaccessible areas due to the way the barricades were digitally assembled from it's components. I got some thinned black paint and used a pipette to flood the bits I couldn't get to with a brush.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6uMU9D0YUkCXkcadoLFAoL2_mEwtEt2agGe3YaS3pOiF7lzYte0e34UVqkiF_sKP-_vcd3zFVfjiI6d98_y9w7wGmpEkvWTQQj4asscDKKDYad7kb9whEXoKJBdbNW35T1Q8ijhRLgazSfaPzuxBggM-4yBlGELMi6YTsFhplqYP8Ve4dENjOlGSj3E4/s3264/IMG_4037.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6uMU9D0YUkCXkcadoLFAoL2_mEwtEt2agGe3YaS3pOiF7lzYte0e34UVqkiF_sKP-_vcd3zFVfjiI6d98_y9w7wGmpEkvWTQQj4asscDKKDYad7kb9whEXoKJBdbNW35T1Q8ijhRLgazSfaPzuxBggM-4yBlGELMi6YTsFhplqYP8Ve4dENjOlGSj3E4/w640-h480/IMG_4037.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here's the finished result, quite pleased with these and they will easily suit from fantasy / medieval through WW2.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9vkxk5N1cpjNX5YV76PliLTuc6eSYK2i1WtDtwUnZGx4OQjZgOgMZoEaaWhIyz6jy0wjgdXCyW16eteqd0-T2Z8k9RXUT_XRmWR78T9RDkBa-8dzNNNhslBtyaB4gncrLxUT43u6ZdmHQQ3IzBXzLiZkDGhllJ99HFJw5bWRgvdFImskZ9zc6qTaONmQ/s3102/IMG_4086.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1830" data-original-width="3102" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9vkxk5N1cpjNX5YV76PliLTuc6eSYK2i1WtDtwUnZGx4OQjZgOgMZoEaaWhIyz6jy0wjgdXCyW16eteqd0-T2Z8k9RXUT_XRmWR78T9RDkBa-8dzNNNhslBtyaB4gncrLxUT43u6ZdmHQQ3IzBXzLiZkDGhllJ99HFJw5bWRgvdFImskZ9zc6qTaONmQ/w640-h378/IMG_4086.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>On the Kickstarter front I had the recent Army of Duckness project delivered several months early from <a href="https://fenrisgames.com/" target="_blank">Fenris Games</a>, the project comprised a terrain piece which also serves as a egg cup and some duck adventurers.<div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeu3TK-rVvalFXTxX0mMKcWyjhZXYAoYWuddktXYQmAFEUoe2rnlEZdb_oe9ipvg-pxXa3TER32r4LAthpI4DbiBjHHD-Ea5bxXf4MlfeAdMQ16MGq0Mpbg2Yt86N7oLgI-ffY1MRThEIgND4TPCiE_UBOhoHYQKNWe_KWT8ufVvHjmLELtVjbOGG1q9I/s3264/IMG_4039.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeu3TK-rVvalFXTxX0mMKcWyjhZXYAoYWuddktXYQmAFEUoe2rnlEZdb_oe9ipvg-pxXa3TER32r4LAthpI4DbiBjHHD-Ea5bxXf4MlfeAdMQ16MGq0Mpbg2Yt86N7oLgI-ffY1MRThEIgND4TPCiE_UBOhoHYQKNWe_KWT8ufVvHjmLELtVjbOGG1q9I/w640-h480/IMG_4039.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>A close up of the adventurers showing Ian's superb casting, these are going to be excellent to paint.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJTrx4tRK2cyOrEirXh7SC5Ux2vp_Yge8WoceNgxQY5YwTRS9BILHzW8GJi9CFP9lxinwQJDjONuBjZPtdKF52FV_ixkppnUoDaIPPmgs5OoohIRnPl_1BYQo_OxaROlr0qWozqhpuKZF02P8HgK0oDnUJMw69l016GeLVl8R_ym146PEE0qijZGXdBbE/s395/IMG_4040.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="395" data-original-width="377" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJTrx4tRK2cyOrEirXh7SC5Ux2vp_Yge8WoceNgxQY5YwTRS9BILHzW8GJi9CFP9lxinwQJDjONuBjZPtdKF52FV_ixkppnUoDaIPPmgs5OoohIRnPl_1BYQo_OxaROlr0qWozqhpuKZF02P8HgK0oDnUJMw69l016GeLVl8R_ym146PEE0qijZGXdBbE/w610-h640/IMG_4040.jpg" width="610" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Next time, war in the Sudan.</div><br /></div>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04189222731384311257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808098292852471533.post-67178742739845712752024-01-15T20:51:00.000+00:002024-01-15T20:51:19.871+00:00New year, New Terrain<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I find myself still putting terrain together towards my town setup, the Warwickshire Mordheim day is about a month away and I'd still like to add some more bits and pieces. There are some 3d printed barricade enroute hopefully arriving soon.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Meanwhile I packed everything into its boxes and took it over to Worcester where we played the penultimate game of Silver Bayonet in this campaign season, we had the last part of El Cid to connect, despite my best intentions I was unable to get it but plenty of casualties occured in the other groups which may weaken them in the last game.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8EPaHGaDxIVQD-pxYNb8hlgufA73Op6tk_7EdX8IsPkURgannZJ5Llh0kcsDiLb5C9TD_tncKb2LdGfgHKCrf8IlahB3UM8uKInTKxrgWuP3VMAfTrvSOG56GfRjEJMRmWTGkFiwI7pCo5DNdeEw2Ht-46kcTsgxXrc01rtapspPds1se5XzGBYC50FA/s4032/PXL_20240111_210301722.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8EPaHGaDxIVQD-pxYNb8hlgufA73Op6tk_7EdX8IsPkURgannZJ5Llh0kcsDiLb5C9TD_tncKb2LdGfgHKCrf8IlahB3UM8uKInTKxrgWuP3VMAfTrvSOG56GfRjEJMRmWTGkFiwI7pCo5DNdeEw2Ht-46kcTsgxXrc01rtapspPds1se5XzGBYC50FA/w640-h480/PXL_20240111_210301722.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As I felt there was a bit of gap in the cemetery, 4 3d printed gravestones from <a href="https://irongatescenery.co.uk/" target="_blank">Iron Gate Scenery</a> on a bit of scrap mdf would fill the space. I also managed to find a couple of resin pieces of unknown origin to smarten up and base.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinzpHeIrwhk1uHfcApPX4YkKcEVEmix_632Bw94rRtltt7BNHYz5O6y0wm6x7jttDggCA46AzzmYlbtC5lmFIwjIr1cATH4MpqXWcGtchW_qOVoE7xj1FaeFGCXsPy4lR_H7HjIeEIgU7bsg2HPN1ouGJEjhkBubWw6BpaFkZ9SASDA4MRtBOlKBqZGR8/s2902/IMG_4022.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1560" data-original-width="2902" height="344" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinzpHeIrwhk1uHfcApPX4YkKcEVEmix_632Bw94rRtltt7BNHYz5O6y0wm6x7jttDggCA46AzzmYlbtC5lmFIwjIr1cATH4MpqXWcGtchW_qOVoE7xj1FaeFGCXsPy4lR_H7HjIeEIgU7bsg2HPN1ouGJEjhkBubWw6BpaFkZ9SASDA4MRtBOlKBqZGR8/w640-h344/IMG_4022.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><p>Another idea I had to break up the flat table was some craters, these are 3d prints from eBay but look like the GW ones I had years ago.</p><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtXzRxhB4yNOruOrjdw0sLmradvb9aDDwNFPHEzpowSYzWRSGXohyoxD5Ln18xaKxK9cWmClzbaPa796SoFldpsTsv2efRuMsOULsyLsv1-LeXuYLvrWHyA2zte6prRJHIuMmMd7MOi5N0ddfgAd4d4GZPFoClk5crNY2M-wtD-zP6RaqEqtx6y_DxWQQ/s2929/IMG_4023.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1462" data-original-width="2929" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtXzRxhB4yNOruOrjdw0sLmradvb9aDDwNFPHEzpowSYzWRSGXohyoxD5Ln18xaKxK9cWmClzbaPa796SoFldpsTsv2efRuMsOULsyLsv1-LeXuYLvrWHyA2zte6prRJHIuMmMd7MOi5N0ddfgAd4d4GZPFoClk5crNY2M-wtD-zP6RaqEqtx6y_DxWQQ/w640-h320/IMG_4023.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Blotz is a company from nearby Cirencester making mdf scenics, they were able to supply some suitable short fencing. I tried to tie these to a similar colour scheme as the 4ground fencing in the next photo.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbUo0OJXlisJdCEcsiPRElDlDj_A4KFWw3C4Hv6uYqYSfLFuUgYi3r-WsGeVyV784byCKKsvqcs3LCfAL6HxdUll1bs7hIKRZJs0Rom1o-LAkGoN4I1IQW_oz4abTPrqpMOu08NPOKWcWQ47OCASafxZYMJR48GVqWbRgAJ2zExZGsCwGGQbtMf1kgSXg/s3264/IMG_4024.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1151" data-original-width="3264" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbUo0OJXlisJdCEcsiPRElDlDj_A4KFWw3C4Hv6uYqYSfLFuUgYi3r-WsGeVyV784byCKKsvqcs3LCfAL6HxdUll1bs7hIKRZJs0Rom1o-LAkGoN4I1IQW_oz4abTPrqpMOu08NPOKWcWQ47OCASafxZYMJR48GVqWbRgAJ2zExZGsCwGGQbtMf1kgSXg/w640-h226/IMG_4024.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>I believe these are from the Wild West range and may see light of day again as I believe Great Escape Games may have purchased the rights to them, as an side, Tymeagain the parent of 4ground is now also in liquidation.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPG-3O6acDu0g8V4Yn6nRx4ebOK1dsoO037Khv-Ozns080Y9GWKvL4gkWq1KOdrLp2lWf4Hza9gMJE0p1YlpC4ntKiFosTFOE-Ab64PMjRYL9ygetFD-mwVmRiAB1A-MDWsdpx24FKmj8e1Oxjc-b6iX1c7keWhMjZfDZSob0TlImLkTnWIb2DQ-OCdEw/s3002/IMG_4025.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1368" data-original-width="3002" height="292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPG-3O6acDu0g8V4Yn6nRx4ebOK1dsoO037Khv-Ozns080Y9GWKvL4gkWq1KOdrLp2lWf4Hza9gMJE0p1YlpC4ntKiFosTFOE-Ab64PMjRYL9ygetFD-mwVmRiAB1A-MDWsdpx24FKmj8e1Oxjc-b6iX1c7keWhMjZfDZSob0TlImLkTnWIb2DQ-OCdEw/w640-h292/IMG_4025.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>The last of the MDF, some Fabled Realms stockade pieces, not sure what if anything I'd do with these but other pieces may come to light, a coffin again possibly 4ground Wild West range and finally an Outhouse from <a href="https://blotz.co.uk/product-category/wargames-terrain/" target="_blank">Blotz</a>.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidnGYbNAsTMme7CiYNzSZU8O_SP0f0NajZPYz2v4v7lDd43FAjeefvBvhlZmabmfW_z-YLL2g41iF3cP2tstCS6yb69fBk4oFaiH6_r8DbKx8J91S4tk3iuE4LQbkbVEXDQuldd5CFUn7oSkkBXXIYiqPhXTBLv8akLlCYidQ9fci4Iq5dU0w-x8kDg54/s2886/IMG_4026.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1104" data-original-width="2886" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidnGYbNAsTMme7CiYNzSZU8O_SP0f0NajZPYz2v4v7lDd43FAjeefvBvhlZmabmfW_z-YLL2g41iF3cP2tstCS6yb69fBk4oFaiH6_r8DbKx8J91S4tk3iuE4LQbkbVEXDQuldd5CFUn7oSkkBXXIYiqPhXTBLv8akLlCYidQ9fci4Iq5dU0w-x8kDg54/w640-h244/IMG_4026.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>One of the things I thought missing from my ruined town was rubble so some offcuts of lino I combined heavy filler, gravel, mdf offcuts and sand to make these. They are weighty so I will make the next with a foamcore center to make them lighter.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG22nTYiCJdFGlHhNM6nCbpO7u_qLi6oWZsNaRShhf7CaKYiMpCcPJkBjDB8PNS_uOEaasIZoUYhfuEFn2P3Ir0RrTFwUjbrD4VbJN3OlXx1CBQh3purdZWvK8Q_PGTG7nq-qA0_bfBs6o0W0HuWeAPRxAUmimaVHQagqIb1ClMtY3hPqNmGXwyMZ-riM/s3072/IMG_4028-EDIT.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="940" data-original-width="3072" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG22nTYiCJdFGlHhNM6nCbpO7u_qLi6oWZsNaRShhf7CaKYiMpCcPJkBjDB8PNS_uOEaasIZoUYhfuEFn2P3Ir0RrTFwUjbrD4VbJN3OlXx1CBQh3purdZWvK8Q_PGTG7nq-qA0_bfBs6o0W0HuWeAPRxAUmimaVHQagqIb1ClMtY3hPqNmGXwyMZ-riM/w640-h196/IMG_4028-EDIT.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div>Alas the light this evening was poor for photos but I finished the six orcs I needed for the next Rangers of Shadowdeep scenario, bringing the finished total to 15 out of 46.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKkFjW85eAS4ZCLBcnvHhHX6N5eB37F1KWlxiYF87b-lVWdehqJ0wxpA_7KXpt0rJXRZ1AJqT16WOmtvv9brb34wlJX-9EQl4RfjlO6YBcy8PQ5y1e9Nc4kmKmnhk22aPYdEYK3wK1F2E6tvbjh7s5Xab-Db3YQeXAs_tXcoousNVPxwh7ebj3xtxEuQY/s3610/PXL_20240115_201834108.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1081" data-original-width="3610" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKkFjW85eAS4ZCLBcnvHhHX6N5eB37F1KWlxiYF87b-lVWdehqJ0wxpA_7KXpt0rJXRZ1AJqT16WOmtvv9brb34wlJX-9EQl4RfjlO6YBcy8PQ5y1e9Nc4kmKmnhk22aPYdEYK3wK1F2E6tvbjh7s5Xab-Db3YQeXAs_tXcoousNVPxwh7ebj3xtxEuQY/w640-h192/PXL_20240115_201834108.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04189222731384311257noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808098292852471533.post-19759864434340523692024-01-01T14:13:00.001+00:002024-01-01T14:13:19.980+00:002023 A short retrospective<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Once more the year rolls around and starts anew. As a tradition we always have our walk on New Years morning, today was no different albeit cold and muddy underfoot, the local rivers have burst their banks which will cause some inconvenience but hopefully will be back to normal levels soon.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Below is my photo collage of the 2023 output, a little disappointing due to a big lull in the middle of the year but there's a reasonable amount of terrain pieces completed which should see a game soon, fingers crossed. The focus on what I have finished is split between the medieval, principally for the Barons War and fantasy which is focussed primarily on Rangers of Shadowdeep and then on producing some figures for skirmish games and ultimately our annual Warhammer weekend in October.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLr_BlxGq64nvgQi0ogABV0haUiONlEi-Fks4vMSvLymDfe4tAZLmCwZLq1twN1Dx4bJPbO0vgEO0a0o4QBgX0TKeDkbsAYWPZRjKSxIpFxLQ40tVe1fIcx7moQJV-xJniXzcp0iJu0Szoy_1LJROGfKk261NlKBhErQqVKQEPnGWo3dXoh0gO7nZq2TE/s4000/collage23.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLr_BlxGq64nvgQi0ogABV0haUiONlEi-Fks4vMSvLymDfe4tAZLmCwZLq1twN1Dx4bJPbO0vgEO0a0o4QBgX0TKeDkbsAYWPZRjKSxIpFxLQ40tVe1fIcx7moQJV-xJniXzcp0iJu0Szoy_1LJROGfKk261NlKBhErQqVKQEPnGWo3dXoh0gO7nZq2TE/w640-h480/collage23.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>But what of my 2023 plans? Luckily I was fairly fluid with my plans and committed myself to nothing but played a wide variety of rules and periods from the Medieval (Barons War, To The Strongest and Nevermind The Billhooks), Sharp Practice for Napoleonics, What a Cowboy, Chain of Command and Bolt Action for WW2 and Bonsai Bonkers for samurai skirmish. For fantasy I played Kings of War, Warhammer 3rd edition and Rangers of Shadowdeep and the only Sci-Fi was a Star Wars Chain of Command variant.<p></p><div>This year I'm going to list my plans here;</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Mordheim - I need to get everything out to see what's still needed</li><li>Play more Rangers of Shadowdeep - acquiring and painting as needed.</li><li>Dwarfs - an army that will work for Warhammer 3rd edition and all editions including The Old World</li><li>Sharp Practice - I still have unfinished cavalry, more infantry and support options for my British and French forces, as this is probably my favourite game I need to give it a little more table time.</li></ul><div>Our RPG campaigns continue and I'll be running games in person at Owlbear in September and at a new event in April, set in a castle!</div></div>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04189222731384311257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808098292852471533.post-29023711050818637762023-12-23T17:13:00.001+00:002024-02-03T15:15:40.263+00:00Silver Bayonet on a school night!<p>I finally had opportunity to pop to Stuart's and join their <a href="https://www.northstarfigures.com/list.php?man=302&page=1" target="_blank">Silver Bayonet</a> campaign, my Brits got to join their existing British, French and Spanish units in their quest to retrieve the remains of El Cid. The board comprised my GW Garden of Morr (it's first outing) and Stuart's <a href="http://www.tablescape.co.uk/Catalogue/Mediterranean/MediterraneanRange.htm" target="_blank">Tablescape</a> mediterranean buildings. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFqIqHTZjGJsHj8eDvcS-l7q2so6y7HJZ9x4f2AJOKlE5GYsDL6OdaNkkycotnEabsqNxKHFOlo4X2VqWq_tUgtsg9QoZdYL6_iNatXM6xMjaN8k0_1dIINc2eVaR4pl2HmiR0kOEoXrtSY9Rpos08OsGV-5fIlP7xrGiKkDQuQtsB1GfdE8bA3PyL_0Y/s4032/PXL_20231219_195639784.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFqIqHTZjGJsHj8eDvcS-l7q2so6y7HJZ9x4f2AJOKlE5GYsDL6OdaNkkycotnEabsqNxKHFOlo4X2VqWq_tUgtsg9QoZdYL6_iNatXM6xMjaN8k0_1dIINc2eVaR4pl2HmiR0kOEoXrtSY9Rpos08OsGV-5fIlP7xrGiKkDQuQtsB1GfdE8bA3PyL_0Y/w640-h480/PXL_20231219_195639784.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Revenants were being spawned from the graveyard and burial bases, I tried to engage them from a distance but musket balls pass through them easily doing little damage. Luckily they didn't have the brains to leave the cemetery so could be distracted easily.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8IMFFhJrQeEX0EoVeyiBVrl0ZCp7azPl8ZC98O8jPHIydZItZJS9_HdfmIX2ARRI1jweO1-66QwUfeVgMe5TFz_BmFF87SQJSpXtqjeJBq8_g3cNVG_CLgyoktGMVXbSqiIH4g_YIawfwkFNpYSJvnDXlPc9ftVAwCXUIb5vHv65FsEJ0UrfawTUbEp4/s4032/PXL_20231219_195645037.MP.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8IMFFhJrQeEX0EoVeyiBVrl0ZCp7azPl8ZC98O8jPHIydZItZJS9_HdfmIX2ARRI1jweO1-66QwUfeVgMe5TFz_BmFF87SQJSpXtqjeJBq8_g3cNVG_CLgyoktGMVXbSqiIH4g_YIawfwkFNpYSJvnDXlPc9ftVAwCXUIb5vHv65FsEJ0UrfawTUbEp4/w640-h480/PXL_20231219_195645037.MP.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Revenants will always move towards the nearest human in sight, failing that it will move towards the nearest clue markers - players can use this mechanism to lead them towards their opponents.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwdynD4FnV3TFCuH9DVKHpJOpOf4PohvocVmalkUbsPsnLlGGflR2NuQQHMCV29QXz7TEd8vYJEXMC-tFLwShtV0zxNJhTGdvWL7t74OTx-aF4YwlMa2aNm7vctYateUcUbjVwFewwsQ-ZconR650m9nVKuAt7HOLrCuvy-7ImXGV_rfNBrz_Vx9XCRr8/s4032/PXL_20231219_195720985.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwdynD4FnV3TFCuH9DVKHpJOpOf4PohvocVmalkUbsPsnLlGGflR2NuQQHMCV29QXz7TEd8vYJEXMC-tFLwShtV0zxNJhTGdvWL7t74OTx-aF4YwlMa2aNm7vctYateUcUbjVwFewwsQ-ZconR650m9nVKuAt7HOLrCuvy-7ImXGV_rfNBrz_Vx9XCRr8/w640-h480/PXL_20231219_195720985.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Vampires are also spawned, Mark faced the first and it appeared almost of top of his unit of British, several fell to the ancient evil before it was disposed of.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik7sthwBF22c4u_4xXArCpiifm6z6KgN3Z7ji-2IvWGi3xW1Y57youjLlbDOaP11I_maCI5jNGlyvQqtNR-GZX7JEGg_pBU06NimMHMWuAZvhAaFeepPu3sy51HC6V4IRTQnnPfghQTUCkxB2ss70lHtI7WckpF-9hVDqaBhExItg2ArggFAHRlbu9x3o/s4032/PXL_20231219_211554016.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik7sthwBF22c4u_4xXArCpiifm6z6KgN3Z7ji-2IvWGi3xW1Y57youjLlbDOaP11I_maCI5jNGlyvQqtNR-GZX7JEGg_pBU06NimMHMWuAZvhAaFeepPu3sy51HC6V4IRTQnnPfghQTUCkxB2ss70lHtI7WckpF-9hVDqaBhExItg2ArggFAHRlbu9x3o/w640-h480/PXL_20231219_211554016.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Eventually my Brits raced through the gates and out the otherside whilst others went around the side. During my investigations I reach two of the clue markers, killed six Revenants and found an relic cross that would aid me in future games.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdLVvr0T_mdZEUrsrBgdJMY-RLsU6l1oLXllYuhDYafzQ2mlGFJvoUw1N3IIgEUCY5FHJF-zleXPS-uSLEm4Xbcmy97KiVspe2HOMT3lBGLDJqY9-m473daMQl-FsVHn0G5wml_LJ9PxhXbaSkoVcT7v5M6rSmMdA8MFLnDsd8CCDgNCPGLawD3EclZqI/s4032/PXL_20231219_215830697.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdLVvr0T_mdZEUrsrBgdJMY-RLsU6l1oLXllYuhDYafzQ2mlGFJvoUw1N3IIgEUCY5FHJF-zleXPS-uSLEm4Xbcmy97KiVspe2HOMT3lBGLDJqY9-m473daMQl-FsVHn0G5wml_LJ9PxhXbaSkoVcT7v5M6rSmMdA8MFLnDsd8CCDgNCPGLawD3EclZqI/w640-h480/PXL_20231219_215830697.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Meanwhile on the desk I have been working away with the Red Vectors ruins, again as before a great MDF shell to make your own. On this set I've used the <a href="https://warbases.co.uk/product-category/from-scratch/tiling-sheets/" target="_blank">Warbases</a> tiling sheets rather than cutting my own, it certainly sped up that task, the floorboards I have done with the coffee stirrers I used for the timbering on the Kromlech Ruins. The next task will be to distress the edges of the floorboards, they have had a coat of neat PVA and tomorrow I'll attack it with a scalpel blade.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMAAlRSapLKoyggV8CP-EFHgK3Vv3gClu8-kaMpRT5Nu8I3R21BAmdjk-jlBK3cKmIKen4iq1FQXZbi8YDFkkzy3Fc0LEW60ruwrr0DyyTQbTWpag-AUdXHAt3jsMrkluAX7xVFLP2p-lqTaNqLY3LHaUYw9C0v0dZ_vxvwx756npB1LhTOj-lqXZ8QOI/s4032/PXL_20231223_140718951.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMAAlRSapLKoyggV8CP-EFHgK3Vv3gClu8-kaMpRT5Nu8I3R21BAmdjk-jlBK3cKmIKen4iq1FQXZbi8YDFkkzy3Fc0LEW60ruwrr0DyyTQbTWpag-AUdXHAt3jsMrkluAX7xVFLP2p-lqTaNqLY3LHaUYw9C0v0dZ_vxvwx756npB1LhTOj-lqXZ8QOI/w640-h480/PXL_20231223_140718951.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04189222731384311257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808098292852471533.post-91245093887803367862023-12-13T19:53:00.004+00:002023-12-13T20:25:17.435+00:00City Ruins and the Black Orchestra<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This weekend I managed to find some time amongst the Christmas preparation to complete the <a href="https://www.waylandgames.co.uk/city-ruins-krts143" target="_blank">Kromlech Frostgrave City Ruins</a> kit. Supplied as a bundle of MDF sheets with online instructions, I'd quickly built these but got bogged down with the detailing and painting.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3NpFfmmeB7mwDXI3QT4o-wAUACeWePqSh8VuhYqfkSshlaQOS-gUfOrLBQJvVUx8XPeLn-PHvnxO-KiBvGkbXmbNSfebjYA8nlJlAjGd18YXxQ3DPp_ZcHp3fu9UhQeYTc-2WAxWAXtzirng84d2F6ZuA3BxXeHR3Vl7uSNwbOqh9AZBW0-OVwNGlXaQ/s3264/IMG_3928.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="2448" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3NpFfmmeB7mwDXI3QT4o-wAUACeWePqSh8VuhYqfkSshlaQOS-gUfOrLBQJvVUx8XPeLn-PHvnxO-KiBvGkbXmbNSfebjYA8nlJlAjGd18YXxQ3DPp_ZcHp3fu9UhQeYTc-2WAxWAXtzirng84d2F6ZuA3BxXeHR3Vl7uSNwbOqh9AZBW0-OVwNGlXaQ/w300-h400/IMG_3928.HEIC" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Here's a couple of WIP photos.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfJxn4dUKRBNZG8raF1GWZt-BqiQ7yttVlAQoD594sCeaFxJ7VfM1qCzQ2Leqp37TR48tGuzkDTFQ7R-NuVb1bCyHWXwslMT7tNigmuom6rQklmI5tgPrJp9MErSU_HffIJ2c283iivBsnVY-pFMu2GPFkPx4Owj4ka8eqX0RPFqy9Kwx092J0ND3TjTE/s3264/IMG_3876.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfJxn4dUKRBNZG8raF1GWZt-BqiQ7yttVlAQoD594sCeaFxJ7VfM1qCzQ2Leqp37TR48tGuzkDTFQ7R-NuVb1bCyHWXwslMT7tNigmuom6rQklmI5tgPrJp9MErSU_HffIJ2c283iivBsnVY-pFMu2GPFkPx4Owj4ka8eqX0RPFqy9Kwx092J0ND3TjTE/w640-h480/IMG_3876.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv26KdPRKPP5DKN4TIyWxXjm9mHxj54R3sHQNuFo9-C-mVsRLYm5ZZCNHhHvl1DjGnaJHArVMIfxmQHTTaN1PDJlyHljFW_NeGrTeuIcKosCdSDViIEhhatb1Rf_W3YGYBR5MCDvrmZodBLrxgP8LtznmFZG6EtWFFP9n7XVSylYbT20MceahEpH53ryU/s3303/original_cdb363af-bcea-4c43-91fa-50d02a71de94_PXL_20231125_171242929.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1509" data-original-width="3303" height="292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv26KdPRKPP5DKN4TIyWxXjm9mHxj54R3sHQNuFo9-C-mVsRLYm5ZZCNHhHvl1DjGnaJHArVMIfxmQHTTaN1PDJlyHljFW_NeGrTeuIcKosCdSDViIEhhatb1Rf_W3YGYBR5MCDvrmZodBLrxgP8LtznmFZG6EtWFFP9n7XVSylYbT20MceahEpH53ryU/w640-h292/original_cdb363af-bcea-4c43-91fa-50d02a71de94_PXL_20231125_171242929.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I used thin wooden coffee stirrers purchased in bulk for my timber detailing, attached with PVA glue then a small amount of wood filler was used to fill any small gaps. As before the plasterwork was done with PVA, tile grout and a small amount of water, I've found this just gives enough texture. Painting was done with household emulsion and craft paints then modelling pigments were used for shading.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQWmGeLwopiVjU5gvtE2yO_CEnEc2p42rxwytivGHjHRa4n3gCyzQSH44QWFWLSepUzADROAsL332BKUokvr_PiRVB0wUiM3IAW5WB39nbWg6pi4HLQby7rCDYpNHs9NNxghoM1HrrPaBcWTAwbG0xUzB5V4hOpGHxcYK9u_v_cYkh7bdBSUsjihG4yG8/s2124/IMG_3921.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1623" data-original-width="2124" height="490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQWmGeLwopiVjU5gvtE2yO_CEnEc2p42rxwytivGHjHRa4n3gCyzQSH44QWFWLSepUzADROAsL332BKUokvr_PiRVB0wUiM3IAW5WB39nbWg6pi4HLQby7rCDYpNHs9NNxghoM1HrrPaBcWTAwbG0xUzB5V4hOpGHxcYK9u_v_cYkh7bdBSUsjihG4yG8/w640-h490/IMG_3921.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The kit makes 9 pieces which can be brought together into 4 distinct pieces. I took the decision to paint the pieces so they could be used together should I choose to.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBWd0CI5Y8uy4JsgMQLHYUKTglWuP_VZUcV3vvlpFevmcwWZ94M_UAV24W2LX_nsBV08KfFZsOXJ8Vh4HCjVTBoyslKi5UUxLXGTqkxIBFCJByQjCvsfxlqYCzPhQS9zhh6N0E8HzSOFQhtnFybUQVz6eZQCYHpRUGYQPuM5PzxWEJSF08MGVYnNU6Ss8/s1763/IMG_3923.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1763" data-original-width="1626" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBWd0CI5Y8uy4JsgMQLHYUKTglWuP_VZUcV3vvlpFevmcwWZ94M_UAV24W2LX_nsBV08KfFZsOXJ8Vh4HCjVTBoyslKi5UUxLXGTqkxIBFCJByQjCvsfxlqYCzPhQS9zhh6N0E8HzSOFQhtnFybUQVz6eZQCYHpRUGYQPuM5PzxWEJSF08MGVYnNU6Ss8/w590-h640/IMG_3923.HEIC" width="590" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The kit also comes with 4 sets of stairs and a number of ladders. A couple of things to remember, there is no detail on the inside so you'll need to be careful painting the windows and once assembled access to some of the parts is very limited.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj330ZbsZuF_I_GUJvwubzgGJaafITuubfwZ-VjoeWFxCqqnWTRwfZy_Lk3LI4FdztjBTnsZ1nEcN6tZHSkIFFX0y-kQ8DTky9KnmItZUwkxy-1qf1j6bR76q5RuZKj3bbjxphR8YqPTDF5teV8D_WiAQZdAUrGMT7R3E_6FcOr3V6EEZ71picN0jGw-rI/s1914/IMG_3924.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1298" data-original-width="1914" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj330ZbsZuF_I_GUJvwubzgGJaafITuubfwZ-VjoeWFxCqqnWTRwfZy_Lk3LI4FdztjBTnsZ1nEcN6tZHSkIFFX0y-kQ8DTky9KnmItZUwkxy-1qf1j6bR76q5RuZKj3bbjxphR8YqPTDF5teV8D_WiAQZdAUrGMT7R3E_6FcOr3V6EEZ71picN0jGw-rI/w640-h434/IMG_3924.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Adding the timbering definitely improves the buildings and I would recommend you give this a go on similar models.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh22VEk8g46vMZ6XU_59OzmA6IpXfcJyGZ7PB_wA4kvJJ93U-hQi5-cLAX-9xVjzRShGuqLh2yDxKmPXV3uKeB8URzavEM8j0JhIS5ASTpnF6amelBcPc13qfWvoL6CJABy4RI3FAw-NCDO90QjWBA2Usn290S_1LMlz5323aXX5FSk9NoaKExa48a5R2g/s2273/IMG_3925.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1950" data-original-width="2273" height="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh22VEk8g46vMZ6XU_59OzmA6IpXfcJyGZ7PB_wA4kvJJ93U-hQi5-cLAX-9xVjzRShGuqLh2yDxKmPXV3uKeB8URzavEM8j0JhIS5ASTpnF6amelBcPc13qfWvoL6CJABy4RI3FAw-NCDO90QjWBA2Usn290S_1LMlz5323aXX5FSk9NoaKExa48a5R2g/w640-h550/IMG_3925.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here's the collection shown in its assembled parts, it's a shame the single piece isn't part of a complete building.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWLZS7uD9mIDh18Us72uFh7RJMKOZCO24QjguLVhmqxy07WwsvpLbJlNUM7TZiLTsD0Nu_zvoTXVQ626G2Og34g9eOBXvNojkhBDmCpyhFBcDEYDyU8OgCqsbqE2pYIBiHhNFrxUdwL0d8YdJcxNa5epdvMMdA5hRhyphenhyphenBZY0MVOadLzvBgtMYaH0cnJZHM/s3264/IMG_3926.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2185" data-original-width="3264" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWLZS7uD9mIDh18Us72uFh7RJMKOZCO24QjguLVhmqxy07WwsvpLbJlNUM7TZiLTsD0Nu_zvoTXVQ626G2Og34g9eOBXvNojkhBDmCpyhFBcDEYDyU8OgCqsbqE2pYIBiHhNFrxUdwL0d8YdJcxNa5epdvMMdA5hRhyphenhyphenBZY0MVOadLzvBgtMYaH0cnJZHM/w640-h428/IMG_3926.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here's the pieces individually. They fill the mat on my desk which is approximately 17" x 25".</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4ub1s1RELubl9ViOxTmO_g3DH92wkC5abEEIMVQlpxyqm59cOkr4qx6xfid46uaGkDxtvlyySdOgF8NpwMeP3NL8eNddXya0L7WW61jhLvywgoFYDTxVhbTe15GL8xwtmiGIsNNFBuGbona6ZIDEv1DB19ZWym3Ag444p5FOpuIdQEs5dU7auWGmwqME/s3161/IMG_3927.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="3161" height="438" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4ub1s1RELubl9ViOxTmO_g3DH92wkC5abEEIMVQlpxyqm59cOkr4qx6xfid46uaGkDxtvlyySdOgF8NpwMeP3NL8eNddXya0L7WW61jhLvywgoFYDTxVhbTe15GL8xwtmiGIsNNFBuGbona6ZIDEv1DB19ZWym3Ag444p5FOpuIdQEs5dU7auWGmwqME/w640-h438/IMG_3927.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">With a couple of friends we decided we'd have a few beers and a trip to see Ridley Scott's Napoleon, we;d made this decision before all the reviews started to come in but we decided we'd still take a look and it was a great evening, as always it's the company that makes the night.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXeQWeBS-HTEwNZVjIk-iuaeUuYKDwE04OGH102AAiDzggFny9Jtt0wyzYlekWcob3OoD0Zwcv8BYElqKgsfnJlLZSyh1OuHC6tgyOSHuynVvaH11Mr96I69bBh1PrT5gfDtIV54Jm-fREBVK9PHel_NX3KQmr8Debwi5xOCSTaScXIO7qqwvtuYR7Aew/s697/images.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="697" data-original-width="470" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXeQWeBS-HTEwNZVjIk-iuaeUuYKDwE04OGH102AAiDzggFny9Jtt0wyzYlekWcob3OoD0Zwcv8BYElqKgsfnJlLZSyh1OuHC6tgyOSHuynVvaH11Mr96I69bBh1PrT5gfDtIV54Jm-fREBVK9PHel_NX3KQmr8Debwi5xOCSTaScXIO7qqwvtuYR7Aew/w270-h400/images.jpeg" width="270" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I won't write another review, there are plenty out there, we must remember these films aren't made for us but for a general audience but even so I couldn't help feeling it was a lost opportunity with Scott deciding the scenes he wanted to film even before deciding the subject. Treat it like a long episode of Sharpe and you'll have the level about right.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Saturday afternoon saw me with some friends tacking a board game, <a href="https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/156858/black-orchestra" target="_blank">Black Orchestra</a>, a cooperative game set during WW2 where the players have to assassinate Hitler before being discovered. This is a great game, we managed two attempts but in the end we were discovered and captured.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Of course we could resist sneaking a picture of Sid in to the shot.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhlVDVCIadXdYq3GN7C_7kUsW0WAuEV05MyTf_SdO12qctBqvCKxOvHeKlk_rK1lnlbeKAqoR0EHbAG5tz2yVa_TsN9bcfEbN9O7-fYYcZxUH9DfeTIaQD21Z6H02YKaAzcGRUuROFlke3eBjFW-uGtGg4z7OTcwCVHA-9z4ti_No_pdH0-LkrQq4oSfU/s2048/IMG_3919.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhlVDVCIadXdYq3GN7C_7kUsW0WAuEV05MyTf_SdO12qctBqvCKxOvHeKlk_rK1lnlbeKAqoR0EHbAG5tz2yVa_TsN9bcfEbN9O7-fYYcZxUH9DfeTIaQD21Z6H02YKaAzcGRUuROFlke3eBjFW-uGtGg4z7OTcwCVHA-9z4ti_No_pdH0-LkrQq4oSfU/w480-h640/IMG_3919.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Finally some very sad news, we recently lost one of our gaming circle, Dane Stephens, after a long illness. Dane had always suffered with a number of ailments and coped stoically, never letting it slow him down. <p>Dane was a founder member of our old club, Wyvern Wargamers and was heavily involved in the Warmaster tournament scene as well as assisting with the development of Warmaster Ancients. He is on the left on the photo below, we'd often played games at Salute using the figures, terrain and rules from his friends Paul and Sally at <a href="https://www.kallistra.co.uk/" target="_blank">Kallistra</a>, sending interested gamers over to the stand to part with their cash.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8cReAK3MmLs26INJ2ns4TVg-aysRODQPzqmLXgi-YSHCFGgyg0GJgBi2cW3yDNLbDB-2dsd3mLrk3Gg_YoqVurh4FejJiR6VzQZPcjJQ5arQ9UF1Oaivfm2JxW3_7Hr3rZvR7duBa0fEj6lRGpZ1khaoeCqWieJyzsRBK27e9n53YyOE1DiQebf_GY18/s2048/IMG_3896.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8cReAK3MmLs26INJ2ns4TVg-aysRODQPzqmLXgi-YSHCFGgyg0GJgBi2cW3yDNLbDB-2dsd3mLrk3Gg_YoqVurh4FejJiR6VzQZPcjJQ5arQ9UF1Oaivfm2JxW3_7Hr3rZvR7duBa0fEj6lRGpZ1khaoeCqWieJyzsRBK27e9n53YyOE1DiQebf_GY18/w640-h480/IMG_3896.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>Dane's enthusiasm for wargaming lasted until the end and he was still offering encouragement and advice, keeping in touch with what we were all up to. We will always remember his dice luck being proportionate to his pain levels, off his meds his arthritis would give him pain but his luck improved too. Many a time we'd look up from an incredible dice roll to see a cheshire cat like grin.</p><p>Save us a space at the table, buddy. </p>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04189222731384311257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808098292852471533.post-70026203187880137562023-11-22T22:57:00.000+00:002024-02-03T15:15:33.290+00:00A lucky find and a lucky battle<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Travelling back up the M5 after a short trip visiting friends, I managed to convince my better half to divert off early and wind our way into Quedgeley on the outskirts of Gloucester so I could once again pop into <a href="https://www.facebook.com/GlosterModels/" target="_blank">Gloster Models</a>. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I do like to give some business to local shops, you never know when you'll have an urgent need for something and you can't wait for a delivery. I had a mental list of things I might buy but truth told I had something else in mind but I wasn't expecting to find it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We'd been talking about <a href="https://greyfornow.com/collections/gaming" target="_blank">Test of Honour</a> locally for a few weeks, a low model count game, relatively straight forward but offering some fun painting and modelling opportunities. I was amazed to not only find a copy, but at a 10% discount too, needless to say I didn't need my arm twisting. I am intending to buy a small selection of Samurai over Christmas or early next year, deliberately waiting so I finish some other bits and pieces first.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXrzc2ooCnWa7VujyxIIjf8qHmkQxfN-XuOVY4ZVayjatS3_sLie7sz2dDuVnjebv0hj15ZDA0LmtoFtIU0eGpKB8TRmp4phYydZZFV4kVNLDBnMJFEnswwSYAAE3Rt8uGzzfriCyZjWqIQdbt0ktQFmjDBO7tZL5Ic0NQJ0TiiCzl3jPOIDZUkUz1XPk/s1373/WhatsApp%20Image%202023-11-18%20at%2017.45.34_a20afcea.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1373" data-original-width="1040" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXrzc2ooCnWa7VujyxIIjf8qHmkQxfN-XuOVY4ZVayjatS3_sLie7sz2dDuVnjebv0hj15ZDA0LmtoFtIU0eGpKB8TRmp4phYydZZFV4kVNLDBnMJFEnswwSYAAE3Rt8uGzzfriCyZjWqIQdbt0ktQFmjDBO7tZL5Ic0NQJ0TiiCzl3jPOIDZUkUz1XPk/w303-h400/WhatsApp%20Image%202023-11-18%20at%2017.45.34_a20afcea.jpg" width="303" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Sunday, took fellow friend and gamer, Mark, upto the <a href="https://www.wfgamers.org.uk/" target="_blank">Wyre Forest Gamers</a> meeting in Kidderminster. We'd arranged to play a Sharp Practice Napoleonic scenario, I pulled all my figures and scenery from the garage in the car and up we went.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisaLjzkSXCu1aPwHaGvhhUoqQthV5vJ-qv7x-VSVsHKKOowqvYJjocvkzRcXr9pPrpHg_g8Q3nFzCRt4ipct09l_lyPK6XvJEWfB0nhU7IteljGR5mS5YRBgCIyrc8_DQMK1hAFVZ2Kd-4TwUuA1_QOj9Cj1C9OVo8iByh714AmjPv66FijqRi89Raf7g/s4032/PXL_20231119_150605145.MP.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisaLjzkSXCu1aPwHaGvhhUoqQthV5vJ-qv7x-VSVsHKKOowqvYJjocvkzRcXr9pPrpHg_g8Q3nFzCRt4ipct09l_lyPK6XvJEWfB0nhU7IteljGR5mS5YRBgCIyrc8_DQMK1hAFVZ2Kd-4TwUuA1_QOj9Cj1C9OVo8iByh714AmjPv66FijqRi89Raf7g/w640-h480/PXL_20231119_150605145.MP.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I feel I could do with a few more buildings and scatter terrain, but thats for next year. In our scenario, the French had captured the daughter of a British Colonel and he was out to rescue her, the French had her secure in the windmill whilst the British had some Marines close to free her and the Colonel with the rest of the infantry came down the road flanked by skirmishers.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl535j1kvHW2zkjcJqN0S7VFtHuvHqGiPuBBOTbdhAKkEoT_QbJuQvqF0KFqUaqb090QQfxbbusFBW4K4Sw4U0QhXt5YPgtI8B_7IVWnZcGrb1_pIdQu5fED7RvitcbqiWQNz3WFBsVV6deDUmqI8069wtvmsfIFOai50vgAMrG39EjiIIIKojBInnVbA/s4032/PXL_20231119_151351006.MP.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl535j1kvHW2zkjcJqN0S7VFtHuvHqGiPuBBOTbdhAKkEoT_QbJuQvqF0KFqUaqb090QQfxbbusFBW4K4Sw4U0QhXt5YPgtI8B_7IVWnZcGrb1_pIdQu5fED7RvitcbqiWQNz3WFBsVV6deDUmqI8069wtvmsfIFOai50vgAMrG39EjiIIIKojBInnVbA/w640-h480/PXL_20231119_151351006.MP.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>The British Marines so started exchanging musketry with the French, seeing off the troops guarding the captive but attracting the attention of the French main body. </div><div><br /></div><div>A few luckily runs of command tokens saw the Colonel race down the road and form his line up and enfilade the French formation as commanded by its senior leader. Fire from the flank or rear is particularly disruptive in Sharp Practice as it causes double shock. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivQkl9WpcxJPDtShfut_8LS1ecMcWKLHoqbFWjjLHvTFNBLND5zxmb16RLB8ElxuAJwxp8fr4sDo77uTtsxF66-XblIxx1GmYdkohSta1h3ZlPDeSuQU3TmJQCz5RwBUtvWMWNYtoWH5V-kKICVkst3e4nVjB8dVyoZVDuaDcLlq4EiCdavSoFikuW3dc/s4032/PXL_20231119_163738563.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivQkl9WpcxJPDtShfut_8LS1ecMcWKLHoqbFWjjLHvTFNBLND5zxmb16RLB8ElxuAJwxp8fr4sDo77uTtsxF66-XblIxx1GmYdkohSta1h3ZlPDeSuQU3TmJQCz5RwBUtvWMWNYtoWH5V-kKICVkst3e4nVjB8dVyoZVDuaDcLlq4EiCdavSoFikuW3dc/w640-h480/PXL_20231119_163738563.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Yes, that's right, double shock! Each group had 14 shock points.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8VHIhfQ86bgw2VX3Y-ErxOj5ffApYc8AR-W8SNv4C2vx6fZbWxGlcsMfQ8TgU28uyT-Fl6fid8KrVkPOl40IQ6-2tGe_pz0KRW484qn4sQjZtSv0dVdPie2TUWxU2_7PrSjXxS4mtFEODXxZLZjajAMJGwHFfckQXky2_JPryJTjtXStyYEgsSFEpm7I/s4032/PXL_20231119_163742446.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8VHIhfQ86bgw2VX3Y-ErxOj5ffApYc8AR-W8SNv4C2vx6fZbWxGlcsMfQ8TgU28uyT-Fl6fid8KrVkPOl40IQ6-2tGe_pz0KRW484qn4sQjZtSv0dVdPie2TUWxU2_7PrSjXxS4mtFEODXxZLZjajAMJGwHFfckQXky2_JPryJTjtXStyYEgsSFEpm7I/w400-h300/PXL_20231119_163742446.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The result was inevitable and the groups broke and fled for the table edge. The leaders did manage to reduce the shock but they played no further part in the game.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUHoH9394wqI8DY4eUeYx3z50yKQhlxqX1CCLbkKdoTC7h-nm9-KjdTtP1t6M5G1Y86vgJWvcnDvZ6eo84l3Smrku6mtTbp1PrrUBvPJAeQdCIhe_DjpuRsZArhDgqLEUWFHCLV9kWOce4vBdAWiuIDH3KdXbCdrCVMwwW6_Z-uBFgJgf493SbVJg7SJg/s4032/PXL_20231119_164157105.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUHoH9394wqI8DY4eUeYx3z50yKQhlxqX1CCLbkKdoTC7h-nm9-KjdTtP1t6M5G1Y86vgJWvcnDvZ6eo84l3Smrku6mtTbp1PrrUBvPJAeQdCIhe_DjpuRsZArhDgqLEUWFHCLV9kWOce4vBdAWiuIDH3KdXbCdrCVMwwW6_Z-uBFgJgf493SbVJg7SJg/w640-h480/PXL_20231119_164157105.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">More French tried to form up, but as Napoleon said "I'd rather have a lucky general than one who was good" - managed to wheel my line faster to bring them to bare and with fire pouring into another French formation, the middle group fell back breaking up the formation. At this point the French withdrew leaving the field and the Colonel's daughter to the British.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The game was great fun and reminded me yet again how much I enjoy Sharp Practice and how I should really pull my finger out and get some more stuff finished, I have French Dragoons started years ago that need to be completed as well as British Cavalry and some Sharpe character figures from Brigade in the US - I've added it to my todo list.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">On the painting table, Mordheim buildings are coming along, here's a shot with them grouped into the larger buildings. I am doing stone both grey and the traditional cotswold yellow for variety whilst bricks are a dark red. Still plenty to do on these before I can call them finished.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZLzEiILZ9F3naM7PsFAtny7I-9UvRde3nEAPu3MZ9y8XZ-0D20P91y9-tjs_KxzUDvBBNJmbXRo3oUjQ2KhCNj_iFRhBEluUL396jd-RYs9ychMJfv03JxMiz8V6kDUFclWfk624kwFb21NCIFdrB-tmNzm8d7-rxZf721VKZcHPzKyaeDkCAytFWRZc/s3264/IMG_3877.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2006" data-original-width="3264" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZLzEiILZ9F3naM7PsFAtny7I-9UvRde3nEAPu3MZ9y8XZ-0D20P91y9-tjs_KxzUDvBBNJmbXRo3oUjQ2KhCNj_iFRhBEluUL396jd-RYs9ychMJfv03JxMiz8V6kDUFclWfk624kwFb21NCIFdrB-tmNzm8d7-rxZf721VKZcHPzKyaeDkCAytFWRZc/w640-h394/IMG_3877.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04189222731384311257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808098292852471533.post-65631712337128391522023-11-14T19:58:00.001+00:002023-11-14T19:58:31.306+00:00I'm a bit late for Orktober<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Again I've found myself painting fantasy figures, towards both Rangers of Shadowdeep and future fantasy games, possibly for Warhammer Fantasy, Mordheim or Warlords of Erehwon. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">First up is some campfires and a couple of cobras needed for Shadowdeep, these are from Iron Gate Scenery, a nice easy paint job although there's not much detail on the snakes.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs-dI086ppMxmEVXaOUXQbiBY3FELB-DsvuwoMCv2F8SmOfG4NCRBwG05GKORMR8VQfcLlCefeqFGYGJp7cGS1Q2xAHHcd5sDwYU3ejGfd5OGoFIFYmU15wXi43eyMSX6dm59-v0ZjgIhqtKNX2mMOCegF8yPV-sIMMsg-kNQcDb929pMGWKT1eZ2bVVg/s2540/IMG_3810.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1754" data-original-width="2540" height="442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs-dI086ppMxmEVXaOUXQbiBY3FELB-DsvuwoMCv2F8SmOfG4NCRBwG05GKORMR8VQfcLlCefeqFGYGJp7cGS1Q2xAHHcd5sDwYU3ejGfd5OGoFIFYmU15wXi43eyMSX6dm59-v0ZjgIhqtKNX2mMOCegF8yPV-sIMMsg-kNQcDb929pMGWKT1eZ2bVVg/w640-h442/IMG_3810.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><br />The second missions' scenarios have a band of knolls, personally orcs are more useful for my collection, these are from <a href="https://www.northstarfigures.com/list.php?man=257&page=1" target="_blank">Northstar</a> for Oathmark. I wanted to have these finished last month, so I could post them in social media for "Orctober" but I only started them a couple of days before the month ended. Here's the two packs of metal characters, I have deliberately decided on using a drab khaki colour for the skin avoiding GWs bright green goblins and orcs.<div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaSmdy9YgFFh0xrWbNiyxuoAChPMsZ48kEN_TB5oquBI1ydC2E1eScY7Eey8hl1X7WN7Ifph2OioJY_47PP6FFlDfIzar5hmniZnL372gOx8c2RccaMGEjiIot9g6w_wkyg7IvhAevv3EoCmL08uXTp9JHKzZdlBtdSirJnudzZ2ykbh6FFDZuvdRVz_8/s2248/IMG_3819.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1607" data-original-width="2248" height="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaSmdy9YgFFh0xrWbNiyxuoAChPMsZ48kEN_TB5oquBI1ydC2E1eScY7Eey8hl1X7WN7Ifph2OioJY_47PP6FFlDfIzar5hmniZnL372gOx8c2RccaMGEjiIot9g6w_wkyg7IvhAevv3EoCmL08uXTp9JHKzZdlBtdSirJnudzZ2ykbh6FFDZuvdRVz_8/w640-h458/IMG_3819.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Ultimately I'll just under sixty including 2 sprues of goblins that are only slightly smaller than the orcs.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqdpGcoVGHaniOrg2p4dvn6cctU3sVPqDqRWuXfUUGxhyphenhyphenDc9Ai6C2VcMaeGnLF9Sp58huuR6Ho5USEfrG8st_eMIQid72FTg1c8P65EddURQilNUDI50PLX6hYlmp21Oi_sL4ito3ET4QcbZcBuQm3lXlBd-irg2nZ3UNdmXfnteCwsbbuMaQIhOdT2U0/s2637/IMG_3820.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1475" data-original-width="2637" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqdpGcoVGHaniOrg2p4dvn6cctU3sVPqDqRWuXfUUGxhyphenhyphenDc9Ai6C2VcMaeGnLF9Sp58huuR6Ho5USEfrG8st_eMIQid72FTg1c8P65EddURQilNUDI50PLX6hYlmp21Oi_sL4ito3ET4QcbZcBuQm3lXlBd-irg2nZ3UNdmXfnteCwsbbuMaQIhOdT2U0/w640-h358/IMG_3820.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Below, the start of the plastics, the first figure is from the orc box, the middle goblin infantry and on the left goblin slaves, the parts all happily mix across all the sprues for extra variety.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3j-ZEUnXdts5cYY0JkGFHq3UCCGCTBZyf2Mmcw2zLd42407vnQLqFQZH2xOWfsqQrlkgt5KtLN_CnUdkS5WIebrc44ZXChG-H7iJKq2NQZ_mO7GkPvUPo5Asz5y5Og02bkGI2yf-3QYbqw-F1oT5rqj2FciVZZ3U6Qed6r1QFCbIk7lMgHQRq2nVXHTI/s2397/IMG_3821.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1031" data-original-width="2397" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3j-ZEUnXdts5cYY0JkGFHq3UCCGCTBZyf2Mmcw2zLd42407vnQLqFQZH2xOWfsqQrlkgt5KtLN_CnUdkS5WIebrc44ZXChG-H7iJKq2NQZ_mO7GkPvUPo5Asz5y5Og02bkGI2yf-3QYbqw-F1oT5rqj2FciVZZ3U6Qed6r1QFCbIk7lMgHQRq2nVXHTI/w640-h276/IMG_3821.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Earlier in the year I picked up a couple of dwarf sprues, I've built the infantry sprue. The figure on the left has a 3d printed crossbow and quiver - Joseph A. McCullough doesn't believe in crossbows or gunpowder in Oathmark. I have a box of these to build.<br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsCIjSYzWjujvnpj-qyeHFWtuvhih_T0v7iBxVAdkL9jNPr6LgBVm7Y-_N0zkovZzfhyDoteJzMkV_30320v-Zv3umTjYnc2E6wFM_a74YlTSQ1hgvyz5MbEAJQJKNWJM5lQBzDPUfBsRlMp8iStJWdfq5EotpFoAjX1ymmlx82iwML1ixr4nhFop7FrU/s3038/IMG_3824.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1181" data-original-width="3038" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsCIjSYzWjujvnpj-qyeHFWtuvhih_T0v7iBxVAdkL9jNPr6LgBVm7Y-_N0zkovZzfhyDoteJzMkV_30320v-Zv3umTjYnc2E6wFM_a74YlTSQ1hgvyz5MbEAJQJKNWJM5lQBzDPUfBsRlMp8iStJWdfq5EotpFoAjX1ymmlx82iwML1ixr4nhFop7FrU/w640-h248/IMG_3824.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>The dwarf heavy infantry sprue can be made as weapon and shield or two handed weapons, these I've build to use as Hammerers.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMT6qp0cTKbrWaLFxnvtLeFuR25ZgRmy49zdeA6CETFUz9luOWpAlelVHY6dnkiIT0gbugzPn2iQmbky1E2qKdfiY8s0eNVejk1sH0e1spuzsDbngod0l_yoD0r_nOUn0Se6h-oK1ST0F-vttUoLvx-qyGH97MVIFdUyk1nBo5K3jkAQqDL8vlWY-sqnY/s3035/IMG_3825.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="995" data-original-width="3035" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMT6qp0cTKbrWaLFxnvtLeFuR25ZgRmy49zdeA6CETFUz9luOWpAlelVHY6dnkiIT0gbugzPn2iQmbky1E2qKdfiY8s0eNVejk1sH0e1spuzsDbngod0l_yoD0r_nOUn0Se6h-oK1ST0F-vttUoLvx-qyGH97MVIFdUyk1nBo5K3jkAQqDL8vlWY-sqnY/w640-h210/IMG_3825.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://fireforge-games.com/stone-realm-54" target="_blank">Fireforge Games</a> also make a plastic fantasy range, the box contents are rather meagre containing only 12 figures, infuriatingly they include a third sprue of additional parts to make command models. After building the Rambukk Raiders I realised they included additional torsos, which could be used with the command sprue, to build additional models. I managed to build an additional 8 models although I'd need to buy another infantry box to take advantage of them.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfpwg52tEzt4catJxbPGfMkyAzHZJcWyaGU_QWliqsvQ_Q5lxSIvFBkJbmUfff9Wj1Hd8R6oQNTI03Ldijff2WbReasBA4PRNV3kJNgOwWBkEEaB7Bnh4A686uQbYErT4aSJVb3-FPita6aSZdKC7G_cOa2IVsQVT5aduOpXlCGQtrCF9fS-ErNk0n0Fc/s2714/IMG_3823.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1459" data-original-width="2714" height="344" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfpwg52tEzt4catJxbPGfMkyAzHZJcWyaGU_QWliqsvQ_Q5lxSIvFBkJbmUfff9Wj1Hd8R6oQNTI03Ldijff2WbReasBA4PRNV3kJNgOwWBkEEaB7Bnh4A686uQbYErT4aSJVb3-FPita6aSZdKC7G_cOa2IVsQVT5aduOpXlCGQtrCF9fS-ErNk0n0Fc/w640-h344/IMG_3823.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>I will at some future point paint some details on to the banners but for now I'll leave them blank.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmwUjF3TzAty5A8Jd1TfLlYPbOzMOgQZ_VrYfSGkxz7uKeeu9eGDR781YX0wAkcTFglT-JW20sX3e0T6FVeJyGH2f2pYR9hk4k-JJiJj09-_ns0DcpI4QXa2o3XhD-hUd7DAyInYAe8x08vYLBPhYXIUT3GukgASZdiSYZNay1D1MtH7RBqo7kXIgtB94/s2924/IMG_3822.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="2924" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmwUjF3TzAty5A8Jd1TfLlYPbOzMOgQZ_VrYfSGkxz7uKeeu9eGDR781YX0wAkcTFglT-JW20sX3e0T6FVeJyGH2f2pYR9hk4k-JJiJj09-_ns0DcpI4QXa2o3XhD-hUd7DAyInYAe8x08vYLBPhYXIUT3GukgASZdiSYZNay1D1MtH7RBqo7kXIgtB94/w640-h316/IMG_3822.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Occasionally I've found myself in need of werewolves, these are <a href="https://www.westwindproductions.co.uk/index.php?route=common/home" target="_blank">Westwind</a>, another purchase from Partizan - these will see action in The Silver Bayonet soon.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRK2dYgWQlWQidVMUh_NE6uaLq8grZSpSHx2Lu07ZR8ZItxDEEOngzXNfKVx7_km2IHSkn2Jp_UxZHuPFYrvKEJMZOfd8pZXl3g4YckgYmoguVH35YRTHoUc4prT4i8pTGcCFrwa0TgfIq2twc2_TmZfiLEfqsRNP0rkYjVYmpkvzSA5cAKowoj3WJnbo/s2936/IMG_3826.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1258" data-original-width="2936" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRK2dYgWQlWQidVMUh_NE6uaLq8grZSpSHx2Lu07ZR8ZItxDEEOngzXNfKVx7_km2IHSkn2Jp_UxZHuPFYrvKEJMZOfd8pZXl3g4YckgYmoguVH35YRTHoUc4prT4i8pTGcCFrwa0TgfIq2twc2_TmZfiLEfqsRNP0rkYjVYmpkvzSA5cAKowoj3WJnbo/w640-h274/IMG_3826.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This Friday I booked a days annual leave annual leave and popped across town to Ade's to play <a href="https://toofatlardies.co.uk/product-category/chain-of-command/" target="_blank">Chain of Command</a> against Matt Slade, of <a href="http://glenbrookgames.co.uk.websitebuilder.prositehosting.co.uk/" target="_blank">Glenbrook Games</a> fame. The game used scenery that had been across to the <a href="https://www.airbornemuseum.nl/?gclid=CjwKCAiA0syqBhBxEiwAeNx9N9QB-o34hc25Iw3k9fm3oivpNbZ0sNyyKp2c-n0ISA6z2oxQM5JsAxoC9ZwQAvD_BwE" target="_blank">Hartenstein Museum Oosterbeek</a> and used to demonstrate wargaming to the museum visitors.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOv9KfsVIlaMFtEE-rshfpsdXUXSqfKaPr7sq80yccFGMR7EPbjNWUdwrC1ZeNAy64MAa9zcd8dDKZQbYNbozGOUb5UyYg9yIFwcQI5GK_2lFQKFT0TaUk5GordCuKPkI5zQAO44MXG4s_A1YsgBchORJKIT137xto91-VS4LfO_2bGyOcAD03q_1u8SE/s2000/bafkreicv7wbl3nhnb2ngxino3ip3clj5755ffh7fnyepn7c6y6ihllqbie.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1918" data-original-width="2000" height="614" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOv9KfsVIlaMFtEE-rshfpsdXUXSqfKaPr7sq80yccFGMR7EPbjNWUdwrC1ZeNAy64MAa9zcd8dDKZQbYNbozGOUb5UyYg9yIFwcQI5GK_2lFQKFT0TaUk5GordCuKPkI5zQAO44MXG4s_A1YsgBchORJKIT137xto91-VS4LfO_2bGyOcAD03q_1u8SE/w640-h614/bafkreicv7wbl3nhnb2ngxino3ip3clj5755ffh7fnyepn7c6y6ihllqbie.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>The Germans, attacking, were needing to get across the board from one short edge to the other. I've not played Chain of Command in years and always remembered the game as an enjoyable challenge. The patrol phase saw the majority of the Germans attempting to get down the flank only to be checked by British Paratroops. We traded casualties, the British Force Morale dropping from 11 to 5, only to be followed by the German luck ending as troops broke and morale dropped all the way to zero.</div><div><br /></div><div>Great fun, I hope to get to play CoC again soon.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_ZZo8vkdHfu6egOQ8Ju0F0fFG1OI-9ODkxgRIE7boFH_E6qjf5ROLfmMMXB63quZd0D_qfhv8HE9asKfEG372bhP1filUvbAvrVK_ffBVcJyNJBe2JA2TiYnZFT_rbMf6Tjm0spLDNHrnu-lxOU-a786UcaXRFfz0pnPBS-7iPznsebIOAWLXMjtm5bU/s2000/bafkreicjbntbxu3upsksomzv4dj7vky2qgpb7tlgrawtja2dkjyjn76fze.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1264" data-original-width="2000" height="404" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_ZZo8vkdHfu6egOQ8Ju0F0fFG1OI-9ODkxgRIE7boFH_E6qjf5ROLfmMMXB63quZd0D_qfhv8HE9asKfEG372bhP1filUvbAvrVK_ffBVcJyNJBe2JA2TiYnZFT_rbMf6Tjm0spLDNHrnu-lxOU-a786UcaXRFfz0pnPBS-7iPznsebIOAWLXMjtm5bU/w640-h404/bafkreicjbntbxu3upsksomzv4dj7vky2qgpb7tlgrawtja2dkjyjn76fze.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Currently on the painting table are another six Orcs towards the next Rangers Mission and the Kromlech ruins that'll be for Mordheim - I've put my name town for an all day Mordheim day in February so I need to crack on making terrain.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04189222731384311257noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808098292852471533.post-88297190224818746792023-10-24T18:46:00.000+01:002023-10-24T18:46:14.778+01:00Painting for Rangers of Shadowdeep<p>Painting time is still limited but I'm hoping on more time as the evening lengthen. I wanted to complete another couple of spiders for a upcoming Shadowdeep game, along with the two ogres I bought last weekend. The Ogres were originally based of round slotta bases and painted with contrast style paint, I clipped the slottas off and repainted them following the original colour scheme. Interestingly the ogres are cast in resin are very light but lose no detail.</p><p>The spiders are Reaper Bones brought back from our trip last month to Bridlington and Mighty Lancer Games, hopefully I'll have enough for the scenario with my existing dungeon based spiders.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSbRYvrteuDN7hSTbfdwZf2B_5pIhcwkkHDK1VDBRHNEOoLEwfSNeK9WVVRxsdnLO0mdTzaNAEFxTGvKe_Jps8Sh9-t6Rds28Rypc1egTZDoYJlkJg9dLaUqjQce42DEGpJMADmaBDfhHzQSywreXxL6HC-sJqAtVJGWsXy2xhi3HGKO4aMJ8ukcOsPNY/s2213/IMG_3751.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="993" data-original-width="2213" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSbRYvrteuDN7hSTbfdwZf2B_5pIhcwkkHDK1VDBRHNEOoLEwfSNeK9WVVRxsdnLO0mdTzaNAEFxTGvKe_Jps8Sh9-t6Rds28Rypc1egTZDoYJlkJg9dLaUqjQce42DEGpJMADmaBDfhHzQSywreXxL6HC-sJqAtVJGWsXy2xhi3HGKO4aMJ8ukcOsPNY/w640-h288/IMG_3751.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>I picked these two Northstar Ogres up at the Cotswold Gaming Day, it looks like they were originally painted with contrast style paints and based on a round slotta style base. I clipped the plastic base off and repainted the figures using a similar paint scheme, they have loads of character.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2CHEShokSEi2SXl7ykPWWSNDdznwqSU2QG_JrcE9YdmS5T3S-Go5Quz5sMoH31dkLYPj5wzsDBuAHu2YZz7bU7pUnKtYEc3AfD7c8Q62lgI9FWXZmhoN9Chg6-0Kn5Bgf0kbymxEFtiCQWur36mXfBX67oRG4iu_5KgXF-RIcdQNQ6iBASjn_GgvaYig/s1915/IMG_3759.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1587" data-original-width="1915" height="530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2CHEShokSEi2SXl7ykPWWSNDdznwqSU2QG_JrcE9YdmS5T3S-Go5Quz5sMoH31dkLYPj5wzsDBuAHu2YZz7bU7pUnKtYEc3AfD7c8Q62lgI9FWXZmhoN9Chg6-0Kn5Bgf0kbymxEFtiCQWur36mXfBX67oRG4iu_5KgXF-RIcdQNQ6iBASjn_GgvaYig/w640-h530/IMG_3759.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Rangers of Shadowdeep and other games often have a wide selection of greeblies in their bestiary, I needed some more bats and picking up a sprue from the GW Cursed City box was a good purchase as it included other bits and pieces as well as 5 zombies and 5 skeletons I've passed along to someone else.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3rvcqIXRlYuar8GLBBVVXGU6TLellhqgskCbnWKJIFYmBIRy9ArvBx3RIZ88CjwLYL33HWfN4aSMAEjArYpjddZMoTqs9ehAxVz1aM5wLLN-gGa-l64-ddUG5dCdTbj-ZWcqOsUJ4VDD63pAMGjxv4ReisyzIkZPnPhWfhK918myAOf6iYaI9ednnEvU/s2779/IMG_3760.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1158" data-original-width="2779" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3rvcqIXRlYuar8GLBBVVXGU6TLellhqgskCbnWKJIFYmBIRy9ArvBx3RIZ88CjwLYL33HWfN4aSMAEjArYpjddZMoTqs9ehAxVz1aM5wLLN-gGa-l64-ddUG5dCdTbj-ZWcqOsUJ4VDD63pAMGjxv4ReisyzIkZPnPhWfhK918myAOf6iYaI9ednnEvU/w640-h266/IMG_3760.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>I had giant rats (from Midlam) but these swarms are a great addition to the collection, like much of the Cursed City stuff it is over detailed and a bit fussy, I just did a base coat, a broad highlight.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw59gByvnH3JgosZk_qDCsZQAwAqzmaEM_eiP1CjiD6MbZkR8yphO5jfbxX6lrv2X_IkNBBbVUy1KqQpZthUvRdGFtah_0k2-sSh9_S5mKZ91b63qYqY3m3huji71J9UWuLIaro5mT0RU329pyDm11u3kAXaAQxXTcy9oV0RfQ0lp3bA5USv_PEbRkIQ0/s2646/IMG_3761.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1215" data-original-width="2646" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw59gByvnH3JgosZk_qDCsZQAwAqzmaEM_eiP1CjiD6MbZkR8yphO5jfbxX6lrv2X_IkNBBbVUy1KqQpZthUvRdGFtah_0k2-sSh9_S5mKZ91b63qYqY3m3huji71J9UWuLIaro5mT0RU329pyDm11u3kAXaAQxXTcy9oV0RfQ0lp3bA5USv_PEbRkIQ0/w640-h294/IMG_3761.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Again more pieces from Cursed City, these may also see duty in The Silver Bayonet and perhaps Mordheim.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN9CPQqt3YAHmHNbLBLSa6PEF61Q1k2sRF8tj4QICrjcJah3YRchxjPDq98NFKCPDG0HXFh8Zq3_Z9yPSg0ebXzb64JFlcAos3yLQFtSvA64qRkfnJVerymkGXgj4mFDzLDoo1ltW9ZEarwoQVrSei6so5cayngFaiSr-hA-RWmO64prGERbp8q2AKfWE/s2481/IMG_3762.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1958" data-original-width="2481" height="506" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN9CPQqt3YAHmHNbLBLSa6PEF61Q1k2sRF8tj4QICrjcJah3YRchxjPDq98NFKCPDG0HXFh8Zq3_Z9yPSg0ebXzb64JFlcAos3yLQFtSvA64qRkfnJVerymkGXgj4mFDzLDoo1ltW9ZEarwoQVrSei6so5cayngFaiSr-hA-RWmO64prGERbp8q2AKfWE/w640-h506/IMG_3762.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Finally, an essential addition for Rangers of Shadowdeep is a vulture! Not sure what the idea was in Joe McCollough's head, but no doubt sales in vultures have suddenly gone through the roof. I had to buy a pack of six from Great Escape Games, I have five spare.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlyWZ6bm5WWl4D_zOSOqOhHHJSF1QKiA036RAysPt8IPXQOzGUpzc5kwym6KAx8dKCY05-_V28iWgK_6BYJTVrhruObtvbQALlPwpkrdJcu41D2lS5NyP1dlVIFBdU1dfvA-6lj9LWrwLSGXTg0gbwYVzV-weyUb72D2TvNVjND8hBVFEMjNd9N5DqGVQ/s1589/IMG_3763.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1052" data-original-width="1589" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlyWZ6bm5WWl4D_zOSOqOhHHJSF1QKiA036RAysPt8IPXQOzGUpzc5kwym6KAx8dKCY05-_V28iWgK_6BYJTVrhruObtvbQALlPwpkrdJcu41D2lS5NyP1dlVIFBdU1dfvA-6lj9LWrwLSGXTg0gbwYVzV-weyUb72D2TvNVjND8hBVFEMjNd9N5DqGVQ/w640-h424/IMG_3763.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04189222731384311257noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808098292852471533.post-36436090631386668462023-10-22T19:55:00.001+01:002023-10-22T19:55:11.612+01:00Cotswold Wargames Day 2023<p>Last weekend took us back to Northleach Village Hall for the annual Cotswold Wargames Day as organised by Keith Flint (of Osprey Honours of War fame not to be confused with the late singer of The Prodigy).</p><p>Stuart had put together a scenario set in North Africa which a Free French force defends a town from an assault from both Italians and the Africa Korp, luckily the Allies have a British relief column. The rules we where using was Bolt Action 2nd edition plus some mechanisms influenced by Blucher and Chain of Command.</p><p>Both forces have a Force Morale tracker like Chain of Command and when units and leaders are lost, a roll is made with a possible outcome of a drop in the Morale Level. Each turn we roll a number of dice, starting at 4D6, this is the number of units your opponents activate, as Force Morale drops, the number of dices drops ultimately to 2D6. When you've used your dice, your opponent calls out and then the get the opportunity to use any remaining dice they have in the bag.</p><p>Forces comprised a number of infantry platoons and a selection of suitably "light" tanks or armoured car. The Axis forces enter the table from three of the four table edges, with the relief column coming on near the dried up wadi.</p><p>The buildings are from Crescent Root over in the US, they really are quite superb but alas they have moved towards MDF and are currently not even making 28mm terrain. Many of the other terrain items are from "Two Sheds Fred" who sells on eBay.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh_hemTybbvJY-uD3uFUy2UFgzho9jiHlQl1aLFsmO8zIYuiLvNigTrmxBc2-VreJbmBXBLc7B6PfpHoomNKKAmVIiRDQBo-1ljxeKcX8pDscmDsIEUtde3ieFqqg8LVNatqHti5NPmIngFEgjFyIAOQIPPRqA00L-BpsPefa_7BlEbl5w4GUUi7wPZAM/s4032/PXL_20231015_091224548.MP.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh_hemTybbvJY-uD3uFUy2UFgzho9jiHlQl1aLFsmO8zIYuiLvNigTrmxBc2-VreJbmBXBLc7B6PfpHoomNKKAmVIiRDQBo-1ljxeKcX8pDscmDsIEUtde3ieFqqg8LVNatqHti5NPmIngFEgjFyIAOQIPPRqA00L-BpsPefa_7BlEbl5w4GUUi7wPZAM/w640-h480/PXL_20231015_091224548.MP.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The object of the scenario was to hold the four buildings within the town, the French had much of their forces concealed and on overwatch to ambush the attacking forces.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxxkcf0CyuSVTWaEcIXZJvCXvbPq2KGgO9rk99_8oqNYK7oqREgr4qbaH38FwFXq7bGOlBccjfm_l2RJesjU9CUHzmOVyHmMq1vP26sPss1qzxxc57J8vy_wY_DuO3CEXXTdkJXkyDDYi1Jph03_4QfEZjdB-RGmdt6Q6lNnHtxVP8FfsJK31aYcHaZqs/s4032/PXL_20231015_091235973.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxxkcf0CyuSVTWaEcIXZJvCXvbPq2KGgO9rk99_8oqNYK7oqREgr4qbaH38FwFXq7bGOlBccjfm_l2RJesjU9CUHzmOVyHmMq1vP26sPss1qzxxc57J8vy_wY_DuO3CEXXTdkJXkyDDYi1Jph03_4QfEZjdB-RGmdt6Q6lNnHtxVP8FfsJK31aYcHaZqs/w640-h480/PXL_20231015_091235973.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>The large building with the impressive dome gave no victory points but was a useful stepping point in to the town. We had arranged a number of minefields. barbed wire and infantry emplacements.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-_Y8UB3v4ef-g-gRxBpIOcQCboT7lqfMnIk7bRlLUKTXwPioi4qoPxHrZVRv9sPhGNjCBfANof-a4O46aMf8aff9m-okxZYOQGs9Eyo3bma5ws5-PgGqV6SU9dXYf-qJmlwdxe-ADBpK-ISeYJmEVvw-PCSyomx1H3FSGuaNwSLAybqyYyCcyGP8Pfgo/s4032/PXL_20231015_102314361.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-_Y8UB3v4ef-g-gRxBpIOcQCboT7lqfMnIk7bRlLUKTXwPioi4qoPxHrZVRv9sPhGNjCBfANof-a4O46aMf8aff9m-okxZYOQGs9Eyo3bma5ws5-PgGqV6SU9dXYf-qJmlwdxe-ADBpK-ISeYJmEVvw-PCSyomx1H3FSGuaNwSLAybqyYyCcyGP8Pfgo/w640-h480/PXL_20231015_102314361.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Italian troops enter the table initially from the top right corner, exchanging fire with the French, their howitzer being an early casualty. The Italians also enter the table from the bottom right corner using the big domed building as cover.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1LKcxKttyi76fGurDXIk1DCK5AhJf88-_8AQt3T1A-JnZRO08axd3HKl83Wa8bJ00REe_Nxd-1v4eBD0asDuapWAnftgLGjoYsyga_SCU57oPXxFlCOLyKQA7yFP7y3dX01jpcQzJsvz1w6eYdah_Mdzujf4TebWS1nyHA9cT2QjS-IKq0zPsyxM_IhI/s2048/IMG_3740.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1LKcxKttyi76fGurDXIk1DCK5AhJf88-_8AQt3T1A-JnZRO08axd3HKl83Wa8bJ00REe_Nxd-1v4eBD0asDuapWAnftgLGjoYsyga_SCU57oPXxFlCOLyKQA7yFP7y3dX01jpcQzJsvz1w6eYdah_Mdzujf4TebWS1nyHA9cT2QjS-IKq0zPsyxM_IhI/w640-h480/IMG_3740.JPG" width="640" /></a></div> <div>The Italians take casualties from the French mortar and machine gun, they take a lot of effort to take out a Hotchkiss light tank. The British column arrives using the wadi and dunes for cover and engage the flanks of the Italians.</div><div><br /></div><div>Meanwhile the Germans arrive from the bottom left corner with infantry in a half track alongside a light tank and an armoured car. The armoured car is an early casualty, the Panzer eventually is brewed up by one of the British Matilda 2 tanks. </div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-yNCIDYjjEXLoJPW5rCkz94FFqNMs06X6dXAKgFQVYLArn4D3XDG9lVYCum2XnPDt2IaWBeDQLDvLVlgAh0470DdQo_dZQuc5SwGe0PI4qovHKOnftMt7EwyrB3Ae7zf6t0iZIHlOfyjlovCneN9C2eZrH5vXt_sKIJANrRkpoxvkpxe0ouceBKbvXq0/s2048/IMG_3742.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-yNCIDYjjEXLoJPW5rCkz94FFqNMs06X6dXAKgFQVYLArn4D3XDG9lVYCum2XnPDt2IaWBeDQLDvLVlgAh0470DdQo_dZQuc5SwGe0PI4qovHKOnftMt7EwyrB3Ae7zf6t0iZIHlOfyjlovCneN9C2eZrH5vXt_sKIJANrRkpoxvkpxe0ouceBKbvXq0/w640-h480/IMG_3742.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>More Free French reveal themselves, engaging the Germans, they suffer casualties but not before the Germans lose infantry and a Hanomag. The Germans engaged another building and suffered another ambush and where totally wiped out.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Allies holding the village had been quite hollowed out with just the remnants of a couple of sections but the Italians had managed to lose all their infantry and a good proportion of the armour, their morale had almost collapsed and they withdrew to lick their wounds leaving victory to the Allies.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWNSwJZ8CcD3-gqnPTlyhDasjBxumPdLeC6PDTIl52x9MmIv89aMRRQEAiFM1tT7y7Mu1Kk4UZubZLgTiCiVaNMMibC60N2R8HCXGLU4q8S9YjJiI-gGwcMcwNQ__m03FS1D4HVC05VdLvacojIVT7z7BRIRyOJwxcBdk7PwNeq0MesSuPSM-BZTpMLlQ/s2048/IMG_3741.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWNSwJZ8CcD3-gqnPTlyhDasjBxumPdLeC6PDTIl52x9MmIv89aMRRQEAiFM1tT7y7Mu1Kk4UZubZLgTiCiVaNMMibC60N2R8HCXGLU4q8S9YjJiI-gGwcMcwNQ__m03FS1D4HVC05VdLvacojIVT7z7BRIRyOJwxcBdk7PwNeq0MesSuPSM-BZTpMLlQ/w640-h480/IMG_3741.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Alas I didn't take a photos of any of the other games apart from the superb looking Indian Mutiny table next to us. Superb figures and terrain from Paul at Empress Miniatures.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL7u9HdC2Biw74yPhZRCZEwTB_1-tdn-9U-6q_A15KCcHT801R4QQL0S_iGUhS7JPHY55yCCQfOy1jqGFE5TMh7RU4el5XNhlFx_FVchrFTqynXRgR4AV1QsOVuoxTYsuKp3vm2tHkJ911yJYXqBoB5beqc9NkJd7La1yB1Dl1QUjN8GSjaQKAgycQzas/s4032/PXL_20231015_102624881.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL7u9HdC2Biw74yPhZRCZEwTB_1-tdn-9U-6q_A15KCcHT801R4QQL0S_iGUhS7JPHY55yCCQfOy1jqGFE5TMh7RU4el5XNhlFx_FVchrFTqynXRgR4AV1QsOVuoxTYsuKp3vm2tHkJ911yJYXqBoB5beqc9NkJd7La1yB1Dl1QUjN8GSjaQKAgycQzas/w640-h480/PXL_20231015_102624881.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Another shot from the other end of the table showing the fabulous miniatures.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWKGF1BqL04ulfO-WB0CsTUwytQRFuXsPv2QRfrNb5SDaxus9_AE-zwL6Mvcbz_NZ93BlzMc_APfv-Zt2vaOXEwmKSr_D_dDQdrqXojauugd1iNChAxggW7UFUTCtrQnxYUvkvnr2YZRDZEagaBcHm-lBKPE76bXu6EWMYFwyNg9RECNCnWl66EpiXHxk/s4032/PXL_20231015_102649044.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWKGF1BqL04ulfO-WB0CsTUwytQRFuXsPv2QRfrNb5SDaxus9_AE-zwL6Mvcbz_NZ93BlzMc_APfv-Zt2vaOXEwmKSr_D_dDQdrqXojauugd1iNChAxggW7UFUTCtrQnxYUvkvnr2YZRDZEagaBcHm-lBKPE76bXu6EWMYFwyNg9RECNCnWl66EpiXHxk/w640-h480/PXL_20231015_102649044.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Here's Stu's report on the day along with another couple of posts on the day.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://dusttears.blogspot.com/2023/10/cotswold-day-2023-dust-up-in-desert.html" target="_blank">https://dusttears.blogspot.com/2023/10/cotswold-day-2023-dust-up-in-desert.html</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://notjustoldschool.blogspot.com/2023/10/cotswold-wargaming-day-2023-vibrant-and.html" target="_blank">https://notjustoldschool.blogspot.com/2023/10/cotswold-wargaming-day-2023-vibrant-and.html</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://wargameswithtoysoldier1685-1985.blogspot.com/2023/10/cotswold-wargames-day-2023.html" target="_blank">https://wargameswithtoysoldier1685-1985.blogspot.com/2023/10/cotswold-wargames-day-2023.html</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>I had a surprise free evening so ended up working in the kitchen with the laminator and guillotine to produce sets of monster cards, spell cards and ability cards for Rangers of Shadowdeep as well as a couple of playsheets for Mordheim. </div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgkxjOcdpOLauRkmk7qDZO5rVfbn_79C7RhQ32eCpNO51nS-Q9qMaU-TKgjp2-krP_MtWhzzEBVh84FFzlmiRtL0J4CBqi8oN1ufli8PRqBhPSCvvBH_c_-x8sjwtUxHhyphenhyphenY6EncTmbxN-YrG7rFZOmqOwR6Lquun0TKSP1vKMhBtJIMEAzADdip_zNl8I/s3264/IMG_3749.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="2448" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgkxjOcdpOLauRkmk7qDZO5rVfbn_79C7RhQ32eCpNO51nS-Q9qMaU-TKgjp2-krP_MtWhzzEBVh84FFzlmiRtL0J4CBqi8oN1ufli8PRqBhPSCvvBH_c_-x8sjwtUxHhyphenhyphenY6EncTmbxN-YrG7rFZOmqOwR6Lquun0TKSP1vKMhBtJIMEAzADdip_zNl8I/w480-h640/IMG_3749.HEIC" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">There's always a few folks selling odd stuff and I picked a couple of Ogres from the Northstar Rangers of Shadowdeep range as well as a book reinterpreting the Battle of Edgehill.</div><br /></div>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04189222731384311257noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808098292852471533.post-74677952099116236232023-10-09T15:59:00.002+01:002023-10-09T15:59:52.147+01:00Arsehammer weekend<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This weekend past was the second annual Warhammer Fantasy Battle weekends, 8 adults desperate to remember our youth we assembled at Boards and Swords Derby for a days gaming.The third edition of Warhammer was published in 1987 and was the first edition to be published as a single volume hardback. The rules are very much, of their time, overly complex and desperately missing an index, but none the less, are remembered fondly by many. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.boardsandswords.co.uk/" target="_blank">Boards and Swords</a> are typical of a modern games shop, based in an industrial area with gaming space and refreshments. Products include GW, Warlord, Army Painter and many others.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRp4bQ7eb4Eoe9hGMoUUiVDUyNVjUKiVprMRsYe6CIG3gYs1-p0WDaqPkCMnZWvIYPUDfV67gUTVEMJ7aCNkJNZuFiAq7n4teEbHCyJkB5HhHUvfkMO10WTFikCHXjLXY-BXKEDS-mxQt6vUoyiyL65UkkrzQpdLqhfCXXTZthaYOWReMRCh7V1IMgqUc/s2048/WhatsApp%20Image%202023-10-08%20at%2000.47.34_60f9c378.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRp4bQ7eb4Eoe9hGMoUUiVDUyNVjUKiVprMRsYe6CIG3gYs1-p0WDaqPkCMnZWvIYPUDfV67gUTVEMJ7aCNkJNZuFiAq7n4teEbHCyJkB5HhHUvfkMO10WTFikCHXjLXY-BXKEDS-mxQt6vUoyiyL65UkkrzQpdLqhfCXXTZthaYOWReMRCh7V1IMgqUc/w400-h300/WhatsApp%20Image%202023-10-08%20at%2000.47.34_60f9c378.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My army for the weekend was provided for me by Jeremy, stout dwarfs again, but like others I could have Hobbs, who would have loved the madness of the weekend. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDhPlP-sqIDBWe8bbpXycGoQS2WwGHSfk9vdf7ZDdvVuDv3hhE9kAOPJ7EnXLY6Tr9VrDSTTBXH2BTmccuFUtpPByh5XyNPy5-fmxCfz5QX5nDJNxC9yLO2uTQyl0Tpu3G8PzqqBmgILhf_waZn3xy7G1V6H3dB24JfqYXhem-MvdyPDpiawqdPwpkW4U/s2048/WhatsApp%20Image%202023-10-04%20at%2016.02.43_96726da9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="760" data-original-width="2048" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDhPlP-sqIDBWe8bbpXycGoQS2WwGHSfk9vdf7ZDdvVuDv3hhE9kAOPJ7EnXLY6Tr9VrDSTTBXH2BTmccuFUtpPByh5XyNPy5-fmxCfz5QX5nDJNxC9yLO2uTQyl0Tpu3G8PzqqBmgILhf_waZn3xy7G1V6H3dB24JfqYXhem-MvdyPDpiawqdPwpkW4U/w640-h238/WhatsApp%20Image%202023-10-04%20at%2016.02.43_96726da9.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Our number included Sidney Roundwood who brought his 1990's painted samurai army, now tainted by their allegiance to the dread chaos lords.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpU_dYGifDxxT8vK_U9aB2XKcvLic6vro2T099iNAdEa4DJjrki0I8wucog_eMwVGV_U3znLJHUi-jsGxiedkG0J3URmKyKnbN8ndWKdpKUhBcWCBCh5JlF0D28pdl3IEFNVbz4EHS4ZfRiRkvN3VjvQ0q3HqzSgbVmkrUiY1xQuSMAOIPPQInPZoUsXs/s2048/WhatsApp%20Image%202023-10-07%20at%2023.04.40_550d44c5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpU_dYGifDxxT8vK_U9aB2XKcvLic6vro2T099iNAdEa4DJjrki0I8wucog_eMwVGV_U3znLJHUi-jsGxiedkG0J3URmKyKnbN8ndWKdpKUhBcWCBCh5JlF0D28pdl3IEFNVbz4EHS4ZfRiRkvN3VjvQ0q3HqzSgbVmkrUiY1xQuSMAOIPPQInPZoUsXs/w480-h640/WhatsApp%20Image%202023-10-07%20at%2023.04.40_550d44c5.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Sid's samurai comprised of Samurai and Ashigaru from the Citadel C05 range and demons from the classic range from Dixon Miniatures.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioTAwNb_2wgf2ER7gYZtAcVqb_9OHBbZGyYyjXN8pOFU3E_FirVQbJImqhpovGx43o5T6BFNCgJ2vXIYHjmcXd_IvUK5olrcUtzc8OB8esPZ8ZF2VOaaFmgpd3SUM0OVSAC5HkOrJzM5lbu8BDYN7IkYE8C_IPOhQRtgTU2Pb34p8L6rNBwRPdJrC0qeQ/s1600/WhatsApp%20Image%202023-10-07%20at%2012.34.25_227e4bce.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioTAwNb_2wgf2ER7gYZtAcVqb_9OHBbZGyYyjXN8pOFU3E_FirVQbJImqhpovGx43o5T6BFNCgJ2vXIYHjmcXd_IvUK5olrcUtzc8OB8esPZ8ZF2VOaaFmgpd3SUM0OVSAC5HkOrJzM5lbu8BDYN7IkYE8C_IPOhQRtgTU2Pb34p8L6rNBwRPdJrC0qeQ/w640-h480/WhatsApp%20Image%202023-10-07%20at%2012.34.25_227e4bce.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The dreaded demons.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEike8RcHmDCtHE5jj6EYphsLNRdWtFnpzkTViUg7qtQ-WmQxwNlDAcN5fNZvgUV9wEbAro8uL4EAZjoVZPC4em81NLx2r25LUVPzcMdMaGP3TrmM6uRedsNMO0r0zOkmx3R79HY23VE96bm2PlmWB6j309CddPXAqXU56KEKJPfkST5PiXIO_PP6SxBk7c/s1600/WhatsApp%20Image%202023-10-07%20at%2012.34.30_52974b41.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My nemesis for the morning, Neil's chariots. Chariots are a tough nut to crack in 3rd edition as all hits are made against the chariots rather than the wolves or goblins. Many a good dwarf was wasted against them.</div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh3qbDRwp0BLCaPcNzYLkTz6OfIqW9BN-hhQfBnbuEh4a_6LbqfYvPFFGf4OVsNUnKrp7IXSIlgZ6mAeTAhU_kE62rHUOG5TGVOR3rmRgREv7oI0daaGqa9KA-8mHu8djhTrH-USyffnKDcYjeRMIHPfb6Bwi7SXkGX_EEd1yel1SN3EHAR6ht_yQiNiI/s1225/PXL_20231007_111751773.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="919" data-original-width="1225" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh3qbDRwp0BLCaPcNzYLkTz6OfIqW9BN-hhQfBnbuEh4a_6LbqfYvPFFGf4OVsNUnKrp7IXSIlgZ6mAeTAhU_kE62rHUOG5TGVOR3rmRgREv7oI0daaGqa9KA-8mHu8djhTrH-USyffnKDcYjeRMIHPfb6Bwi7SXkGX_EEd1yel1SN3EHAR6ht_yQiNiI/w640-h480/PXL_20231007_111751773.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Colin's Chaos Army was comprised of all classic models, superbly painted, lots of models I've only ever seen in adverts, a pleasure to face in the afternoon.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9TUy0UsGzhRIcvUn1dFr6HYu0Il1KUnrQTRCCXsxkNsSVgxxmPxRzWIQq9d2sQ9O5ZADvRgKEY2XABbI2wI-POUwF25z6cAFoLKxwge_beXFtWtLVU4LNHfYYbVKGvl6PCa40o2yeNw6J4vB_KUURVJnVR8K-RrpSK1aDQ7mxZ7yktWcPmmkdeX0Hdbg/s1225/PXL_20231007_135653837.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="919" data-original-width="1225" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9TUy0UsGzhRIcvUn1dFr6HYu0Il1KUnrQTRCCXsxkNsSVgxxmPxRzWIQq9d2sQ9O5ZADvRgKEY2XABbI2wI-POUwF25z6cAFoLKxwge_beXFtWtLVU4LNHfYYbVKGvl6PCa40o2yeNw6J4vB_KUURVJnVR8K-RrpSK1aDQ7mxZ7yktWcPmmkdeX0Hdbg/w640-h480/PXL_20231007_135653837.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Here's an afternoon game with the scenario drawn from the excellent Generals Compendium, Ogres and Men, allied with Shaun's Norse faced Beasts of Chaos and Sid's Samurai.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigP3WJkR5KwXkLb3rRK6RDW91DlwxuKGV-4V1ZIlh8K0xAupWC-qBjN2EDNb11WqhiyloCNBYCffT8HiPGMeyMm7tdglt0EOJ6EClq-loKjZTW2pY1JSzXYhlhPaamgfbyRLv5uO-F5HpcpsWI3WjXq-YBrjAVBO_j98R1YHunh5OJsK2LB8IQA8EdZac/s1600/WhatsApp%20Image%202023-10-08%20at%2006.43.41_d7954e84.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigP3WJkR5KwXkLb3rRK6RDW91DlwxuKGV-4V1ZIlh8K0xAupWC-qBjN2EDNb11WqhiyloCNBYCffT8HiPGMeyMm7tdglt0EOJ6EClq-loKjZTW2pY1JSzXYhlhPaamgfbyRLv5uO-F5HpcpsWI3WjXq-YBrjAVBO_j98R1YHunh5OJsK2LB8IQA8EdZac/w640-h480/WhatsApp%20Image%202023-10-08%20at%2006.43.41_d7954e84.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Our game saw myself, allied with Dave's Halflings, facing Colin's Chaos and Neil's Orcs and Goblins.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi0TnKVxGnQlTYJtMFQFqfvyHkFhTXoz3LiQV8RwUEPpPh4R8MsA6lcqJ3RjM6Gb7Q87okRRO2P1_H_z4jzAvxoOl0qKUYzoUDsihytTfTJ8fjsofkuDmsOz-qn3mYliqMMY7mZOQFzoE1i59tDmWGBnfCBXbCD-JHQKs5VR-7oytCBfmKVSzsI7doGzc/s1600/WhatsApp%20Image%202023-10-08%20at%2006.45.18_1b9f867c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi0TnKVxGnQlTYJtMFQFqfvyHkFhTXoz3LiQV8RwUEPpPh4R8MsA6lcqJ3RjM6Gb7Q87okRRO2P1_H_z4jzAvxoOl0qKUYzoUDsihytTfTJ8fjsofkuDmsOz-qn3mYliqMMY7mZOQFzoE1i59tDmWGBnfCBXbCD-JHQKs5VR-7oytCBfmKVSzsI7doGzc/w640-h480/WhatsApp%20Image%202023-10-08%20at%2006.45.18_1b9f867c.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My disastrous morning performance improved in the afternoon when the dwarf saw of one wing of chaos whilst holding the other in place. Alongside me the halflings started running early but their treemen waded in and the greenskins ran in greater number, in the end Good took the day. We quickly packed up, loaded our cars and moved across town to find our hotel.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Once refreshed we set off in to the city. The first destination was The Old Bell, the Inn is featured in our Call of Cthulhu Masks of Nyarlathotep campaign so we had to get our picture taken before stepping inside for a beer or two. Later on we had excellent curry in a Nepalese restaurant.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitStYD10xkHGYD447Y1puMDUtPgst6zHc931QKdTqNyPP-XjfdrCed4va1PoO7wiAqTYlAt4sZXfpC9Y9dxcufRvCVp5eFqvvKqKQlrCr83npIcJKmBMbEgLx6b6K2_JT07z6wBhT395j0BkhqEzZ3JQEcgcPngPFIdPeJQ2vyonpcWos2CxpRh5Wxqlc/s2048/WhatsApp%20Image%202023-10-08%20at%2000.47.34_bf36061f.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitStYD10xkHGYD447Y1puMDUtPgst6zHc931QKdTqNyPP-XjfdrCed4va1PoO7wiAqTYlAt4sZXfpC9Y9dxcufRvCVp5eFqvvKqKQlrCr83npIcJKmBMbEgLx6b6K2_JT07z6wBhT395j0BkhqEzZ3JQEcgcPngPFIdPeJQ2vyonpcWos2CxpRh5Wxqlc/w640-h480/WhatsApp%20Image%202023-10-08%20at%2000.47.34_bf36061f.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">After a hearty breakfast many of us then drove on to Newark for Partizan, I was amazed by the number of cars parked and inside the hall was very busy. I collected my preorders and another couple of pieces from <a href="https://irongatescenery.co.uk/" target="_blank">Iron Gate Scenery</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Unusually all my purchases were primarily for Rangers of Shadowdeep, where I'm having Orcs instead of Knolls and some more ruins for my Mordheim table. The surprise purchase was the £3 template bought from Sarissa Precision.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoM7CEgaeYe9c1KYxliwha3bKLl5rQz0bLUx-lcKbCHtL5MqqePB9qw4FlkH7t86g0725HmMpezVslJHxvDKemekPLJ2MlvD-F7Bfdkk6yib4M-I4yJig3XjP6o_Ca7J9bHKgfcwAoexj1QDM-MiW0TBrasR-unkCdJmeWDrL2D6U1NRxib7P4etBewMU/s2963/IMG_3727.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1886" data-original-width="2963" height="408" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoM7CEgaeYe9c1KYxliwha3bKLl5rQz0bLUx-lcKbCHtL5MqqePB9qw4FlkH7t86g0725HmMpezVslJHxvDKemekPLJ2MlvD-F7Bfdkk6yib4M-I4yJig3XjP6o_Ca7J9bHKgfcwAoexj1QDM-MiW0TBrasR-unkCdJmeWDrL2D6U1NRxib7P4etBewMU/w640-h408/IMG_3727.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Finally this morning the postman brought my Jon Hodgson photography backdrops from his very successful kickstarter. I will be taking photos with these soon.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKzNxaRjO1STZlQqvqMf-AFrmrnq8X1kfFCSMB6zfrxxFLVEfZ24t1fVivfLAvLi6jtgewxqg4WmyWRMzDElXtSESQelWwFkg9Zblr_NWQYs5nBnB5WQ13-jbX53tqbMhrEgBtUv_HubpB7_BjbrjnYoeTn0JENcREqfA-aI9-q3-_jJ8acqnIQF6FlMc/s2509/IMG_3728.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2117" data-original-width="2509" height="540" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKzNxaRjO1STZlQqvqMf-AFrmrnq8X1kfFCSMB6zfrxxFLVEfZ24t1fVivfLAvLi6jtgewxqg4WmyWRMzDElXtSESQelWwFkg9Zblr_NWQYs5nBnB5WQ13-jbX53tqbMhrEgBtUv_HubpB7_BjbrjnYoeTn0JENcREqfA-aI9-q3-_jJ8acqnIQF6FlMc/w640-h540/IMG_3728.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><br />Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04189222731384311257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808098292852471533.post-77795056062551624772023-10-01T11:26:00.001+01:002023-10-01T11:26:22.184+01:00Owlbear and Wizard's Staff 2023<p>Once again the year rolls around and focuses the attention on Leamington Spa. The Owlbear and Wizard's Staff is a smallish UK RPG convention, once more we are back the St Patrick's Irish Centre after moving on from the Band Factory.</p><p>We have gone from a single Saturday with two game sessions to a Friday social beer followed by a curry, two game sessions on the Saturday, more beer and a third session on the Sunday morning. Living relatively locally I drive up for the curry on Friday and back again on the Saturday for gaming, but others travel from some distance over the UK and stay over two nights.</p><p>I like to contribute a game and play a game typically going for the morning session so I can relax and enjoy my afternoon game, I also like to pick a low crunch game, this year I went for <a href="https://www.themerrymushmen.com/product/black-sword-hack-ultimate-chaos-edition/" target="_blank">Black Sword Hack</a> published by the <a href="https://www.themerrymushmen.com/" target="_blank">Merry Mushmen</a> - a superb book inspired by Sword and Sorcery books by Howard and Moorcock containing loads of world building stuff.</p><p>Grabbing the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stormbringer_(role-playing_game)" target="_blank">Stormbringer</a> Companion from the shelf I picked The Crystal of Daerdaernarth, looking like we might finish it in our 3 and a half hour session. Originally built with Chaosium's BRP inspired rules, I looked through and identified the adversaries and replaced them with some typical monsters from the bestiary.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoFYo0vZDU0b1PmhRS90CMJPyRGiJeHVQxD-G5mGWfTuyuqlXOVsAo7dhuzEHkcFagKCtSVk_bb3_kPWbtT14CwyNADDvls3dm_SxhQUSW1eFJtyKskWs4rckt8Bq5kMSD08-1OdD4PZegLrjkc4MPGoue4nFedWfMaVagYze8atfOAT87AFDyFY6tKWI/s3264/IMG_3647.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoFYo0vZDU0b1PmhRS90CMJPyRGiJeHVQxD-G5mGWfTuyuqlXOVsAo7dhuzEHkcFagKCtSVk_bb3_kPWbtT14CwyNADDvls3dm_SxhQUSW1eFJtyKskWs4rckt8Bq5kMSD08-1OdD4PZegLrjkc4MPGoue4nFedWfMaVagYze8atfOAT87AFDyFY6tKWI/w640-h480/IMG_3647.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I assembled by six (!) players, all people known to me and the majority I'd played with before including Lee who runs our DCC campaign, old friend <a href="https://uk-podcasts.co.uk/podcast/orlanth-rex-s-gaming-vexes" target="_blank">Steve</a> who used to come to Wyvern Wargames years ago and <a href="http://rlyehreviews.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">RPG reviewer Pookie</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqj7iGcpiSYZvzx7As-X514c4nEfT9aR1Jf6D5wFzd0Rzd1DSQKzmBq2uZPDz1zKT_oF5hct-xv8MqFq3_NRDlPxhIMBBQ1JGlApKOxMankkxYPw4TDDzSGz42ZexJ1DQkKhSzAUnfh1JGGeX3qhcBK0iGLqgBtaup2OgQ8mlEjdSsqJzuQq4rzxk1ICA/s960/IMG_3637.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqj7iGcpiSYZvzx7As-X514c4nEfT9aR1Jf6D5wFzd0Rzd1DSQKzmBq2uZPDz1zKT_oF5hct-xv8MqFq3_NRDlPxhIMBBQ1JGlApKOxMankkxYPw4TDDzSGz42ZexJ1DQkKhSzAUnfh1JGGeX3qhcBK0iGLqgBtaup2OgQ8mlEjdSsqJzuQq4rzxk1ICA/w640-h480/IMG_3637.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>One assuming situation was when the players are posed a riddle by a demon to open a door, the question seemed to assume a high level of familiarity with the Elric lore, I had to join an Elric / Stormbringer community on Facebook to find out where the answer came from.<div><br /></div><div>My players were struggling, Paul Tomes - you'll see his art in the new version of <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/allrolledup/cthulhu-hack-rpg-second-edition/description" target="_blank">Cthulhu Hack</a>, had a connection to spirits and he decided he wanted to summon an ancestor to help. The party decided to summon <a href="https://thegrognardfiles.com/" target="_blank">Dirk the Dice</a>, the Grogfather himself, from his game upstairs, alas he was of little help but Rick managed to work some of the answer out so the door was opened and the game continued.<br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQQtaaIYr4Vjr9qhRo8hrEtzCHy6lbnvJFCt2p19go17HcCZ9ZmnPHzpTEtF6Eehg4VsLfqNnF11fhv6eefhike6WReyDi5O61eFQzFgy_W-J0-QGhyOhEFi3B0a0GZbrDZPIX75PAYgnSPzGbcxVe5LKi4SEYWD-4lkY2WL7LZ1UpQsih3iAGufJHm4E/s2048/IMG_3638.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1542" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQQtaaIYr4Vjr9qhRo8hrEtzCHy6lbnvJFCt2p19go17HcCZ9ZmnPHzpTEtF6Eehg4VsLfqNnF11fhv6eefhike6WReyDi5O61eFQzFgy_W-J0-QGhyOhEFi3B0a0GZbrDZPIX75PAYgnSPzGbcxVe5LKi4SEYWD-4lkY2WL7LZ1UpQsih3iAGufJHm4E/w482-h640/IMG_3638.JPG" width="482" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQQtaaIYr4Vjr9qhRo8hrEtzCHy6lbnvJFCt2p19go17HcCZ9ZmnPHzpTEtF6Eehg4VsLfqNnF11fhv6eefhike6WReyDi5O61eFQzFgy_W-J0-QGhyOhEFi3B0a0GZbrDZPIX75PAYgnSPzGbcxVe5LKi4SEYWD-4lkY2WL7LZ1UpQsih3iAGufJHm4E/s2048/IMG_3638.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My afternoon session was DCC Dying Earth - <a href="https://goodman-games.com/store/product/dungeon-crawl-classics-dying-earth-6-the-great-visp-hunt-pdf/" target="_blank">The Great Visp Hunt</a>. Now DCC is on the weirder side of RPGs but at in some Jack Vance and the whole thing gets weirder still - great fun was had.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">*Jack Vance's Dying Earth books were a major influence on D&D especially how magic works and how spells are named after their creator - some of the spell names are incredible.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU4718ibYMV82UABnIbCU0aqoICtJrkarSp6M7mrOutti7lbQGDehxnNIFalgPJfKs3FY65sm85knXndOos13SDO_tOaw9XH4niunXJBmMPcHDHP63U1geROpCvBZVAl7BJ5hF95PRERePhsomn3wV7kJr6KqvcbOKr7twOH8q_5jiQbT-yN70KJWKEZk/s960/IMG_3636.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="723" data-original-width="960" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU4718ibYMV82UABnIbCU0aqoICtJrkarSp6M7mrOutti7lbQGDehxnNIFalgPJfKs3FY65sm85knXndOos13SDO_tOaw9XH4niunXJBmMPcHDHP63U1geROpCvBZVAl7BJ5hF95PRERePhsomn3wV7kJr6KqvcbOKr7twOH8q_5jiQbT-yN70KJWKEZk/w640-h482/IMG_3636.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The game finished on the stroke of 6pm, I had to rush off to the theatre in nearby Stratford upon Avon for a performance of Shitfaced Shakespeare so was unable to make my proper goodbyes, next year I'll keep the calendar clear.</div><br /><br /></div>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04189222731384311257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808098292852471533.post-54233820327945061812023-09-27T09:15:00.001+01:002024-02-03T15:15:26.585+00:00Morr terrain and more<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A few ago we drove up for a week in East Yorkshire which of course meant a trip to <a href="https://www.mightylancergames.co.uk/" target="_blank">Mighty Lancer Games</a>, always worth a visit, the store is a treasure trove of hobby products and a massive stock of Reaper Bones.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I treated myself to (at last) a copy of Rangers of Shadowdeep, a selection of Bones and a GSW leaf cutter to add home made foliage to bases.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFt6FllCxP5QuHOtK_qXGvhQW7aBNfem1Q3kkiOD8Y_erZNj8SLsps7CIukP6SXE4np25tcDsh2MkBpq0TUBxClIU7s4_M-heZuc5IrGnoNvKMRKboWz8rfz-wpYFLUiIKNz75rGdshZyKUsfCXt2SpHUKeVNmQugsWh99J027_xjH1Aj3OQ-nroxXJiM/s4032/PXL_20230905_161634822.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFt6FllCxP5QuHOtK_qXGvhQW7aBNfem1Q3kkiOD8Y_erZNj8SLsps7CIukP6SXE4np25tcDsh2MkBpq0TUBxClIU7s4_M-heZuc5IrGnoNvKMRKboWz8rfz-wpYFLUiIKNz75rGdshZyKUsfCXt2SpHUKeVNmQugsWh99J027_xjH1Aj3OQ-nroxXJiM/w640-h480/PXL_20230905_161634822.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>With another week off I managed to get a day to my self and built a quick table for the first scenario and added a selection of miniatures from the collection. It also gave me a great opportunity to reorganise the fantasy figures and a freed up more storage space.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm4ZoL63d7Qko-wze1cUzJRv7235TUf77I9Fx-hnCmCFIbfhQxqn_4MeEOv4Nz7dDqjeZ0z4g7x1avDI7q-3gy1vityeRBbuU3B1K6GKANoKbavy_mLI1Ep8GM44lY532I-LQKBpRYgdVLFqg-GXD9AfZd-6no68ihsxxHKXgK0Vz0rg9SoxssiP2TUQs/s3264/IMG_3610.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm4ZoL63d7Qko-wze1cUzJRv7235TUf77I9Fx-hnCmCFIbfhQxqn_4MeEOv4Nz7dDqjeZ0z4g7x1avDI7q-3gy1vityeRBbuU3B1K6GKANoKbavy_mLI1Ep8GM44lY532I-LQKBpRYgdVLFqg-GXD9AfZd-6no68ihsxxHKXgK0Vz0rg9SoxssiP2TUQs/w640-h480/IMG_3610.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I thoroughly enjoyed the game and I'm looking forward to playing again, this time getting all the rules right. I pulled a selection of figures from the collection to use as my ranger and companions - from the original 80's dungeon adventures box, the Ranger and Knight, a slot based barbarian from the later 1980s and three models from <a href="https://www.midlamminiatures.co.uk/" target="_blank">Midlam Miniatures</a> Bandit range.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt7ahZ3yHmp7SJ7OFXsL4kiZfn6icJPU_SAKv9r4swNsk3zWLVm5K-z6AgHASWvT7qL9oJYAiwXQjAxNE_UyTmcqUo35FV1YGutKPkWQRWEk_Aw6RP4UWJscb0fN-KZvQCcPkwkScZhBbuQMh-UF-lAze3gQw-TMvEJeWFBVfsmvqmRyHGojzhAWqyHFI/s1681/IMG_3611.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1120" data-original-width="1681" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt7ahZ3yHmp7SJ7OFXsL4kiZfn6icJPU_SAKv9r4swNsk3zWLVm5K-z6AgHASWvT7qL9oJYAiwXQjAxNE_UyTmcqUo35FV1YGutKPkWQRWEk_Aw6RP4UWJscb0fN-KZvQCcPkwkScZhBbuQMh-UF-lAze3gQw-TMvEJeWFBVfsmvqmRyHGojzhAWqyHFI/w640-h426/IMG_3611.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I've spent a little time trying to track down Kromlech's licenced City Ruins for Frostgrave, I finally found a few copies at <a href="https://www.waylandgames.co.uk/terrain-scenery/kromlech-tabletop-scenics" target="_blank">Wayland Games</a> so despite there being little information or reviews out on the internet I decided to take a chance. A few days later a nicely packaged pile of mdf came in the post. No instructions are included now just a QRF for you to download a pdf. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi259JbsCByqO5cYV-nKKtsfuEo_xCRn423NIhZvgpOlHJU8RuLwINmGAADXIBOdogkHO3LOw1qWqfxXPnfDux0e0H66PncZfM4Diqbz4wiplbRBO5lTjF6Y99TfqfUhVjF7DsW9qtJCgYkffmAQ76Iq6lYQImZsv87TDkjnhzOhuFTlsQzSesDcDGZdS8/s4032/PXL_20230831_192002366.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi259JbsCByqO5cYV-nKKtsfuEo_xCRn423NIhZvgpOlHJU8RuLwINmGAADXIBOdogkHO3LOw1qWqfxXPnfDux0e0H66PncZfM4Diqbz4wiplbRBO5lTjF6Y99TfqfUhVjF7DsW9qtJCgYkffmAQ76Iq6lYQImZsv87TDkjnhzOhuFTlsQzSesDcDGZdS8/w480-h640/PXL_20230831_192002366.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Assembling the ruins was quick and the fit of parts was good, I just needed to sand a couple of tabs down to fit. I arranged them on my desk as in the cover shot above and the set happily covers an area of 24" by 17".<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKmwVzgj-jyFeuw5f3UAZDWvrGGTJ7LA2_ZE2VNX4nFAKN8BTyCvk7cIuKUwphGLrERjk2sDkeOl398or-o3-QWt6fT5avgDGkMJVEiy-4xuuwaQxMqLD7ktQy2ogYIzKDzCV5rqCY2SIAaFowfNTcSh-ovWvE0CNVuuqMF-UDkJ-K4fRsGe9z9BmUkTE/s3261/IMG_3591.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2176" data-original-width="3261" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKmwVzgj-jyFeuw5f3UAZDWvrGGTJ7LA2_ZE2VNX4nFAKN8BTyCvk7cIuKUwphGLrERjk2sDkeOl398or-o3-QWt6fT5avgDGkMJVEiy-4xuuwaQxMqLD7ktQy2ogYIzKDzCV5rqCY2SIAaFowfNTcSh-ovWvE0CNVuuqMF-UDkJ-K4fRsGe9z9BmUkTE/w640-h428/IMG_3591.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>It is also possible to bring some of the ruins together to create three bigger ruined buildings which is a nice option so I'll paint them in a similar scheme so it'll work together.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBRrKQ_nwRnzr0oNFJPMt6Hwg3XiSRjYVQGtNbqrsqHgUQtpttoglVBM3rrTKY_1BKvCxceer1KRImTzVBaMIUf7T51hfIN4rKdFSzKoMt5Co136_oUy3DzIPaDk_WJRQAJ3aINXAYEqaptOVneXg5rCnxVs-lwL1T4myTBxi4e1NMFx_G5Ygmmmcvk1k/s3192/IMG_3592.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2264" data-original-width="3192" height="454" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBRrKQ_nwRnzr0oNFJPMt6Hwg3XiSRjYVQGtNbqrsqHgUQtpttoglVBM3rrTKY_1BKvCxceer1KRImTzVBaMIUf7T51hfIN4rKdFSzKoMt5Co136_oUy3DzIPaDk_WJRQAJ3aINXAYEqaptOVneXg5rCnxVs-lwL1T4myTBxi4e1NMFx_G5Ygmmmcvk1k/w640-h454/IMG_3592.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>We all have favourite miniatures from 'back in the day' and one of mine was the great goblin with standard blowing a horn, I was very pleased to add it back to the collection and will paint it to match my night goblins. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHjBcDSPZ69nxx5VbT6ZvrAyWK6_jXv6hsUbrzZRkY52fVL7eZKz-uBSlf8Zrnz5c6364N9wry3S-nD7jiDLghXdGbnVPsbleA6tz8bA_qvFT2pgm2heoBrnFSeE9-s0ZWZtmxTwZbM-6J4sQk-GXF4M35PqwDX21mWkkTsR6A3Fm1ilcnSiv1m5RNSVA/s2605/PXL_20230903_094939582-EDIT.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2605" data-original-width="2257" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHjBcDSPZ69nxx5VbT6ZvrAyWK6_jXv6hsUbrzZRkY52fVL7eZKz-uBSlf8Zrnz5c6364N9wry3S-nD7jiDLghXdGbnVPsbleA6tz8bA_qvFT2pgm2heoBrnFSeE9-s0ZWZtmxTwZbM-6J4sQk-GXF4M35PqwDX21mWkkTsR6A3Fm1ilcnSiv1m5RNSVA/s320/PXL_20230903_094939582-EDIT.jpg" width="277" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Many years ago I bought the Garden of Morr, probably some time in the early noughties, I primed it, slapped some grey on, even bought some extra bits on eBay and left it, ten years later I painted the statue so I could use it in Frostgrave and left all the rest.</div><div><br /></div><div>With interest in Mordheim returning I was determined to finish it off and get in to the table. particularly as it fills a good amount of space on the table.</div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglVnD9pnwmApsoIrjTb6EM2BplHzdFf2HAH26XBABSKgtzLVd_WDQf4gYlk49O32weHjLN28zeqCtsP03TSEYF_zbSmaj0iiN0T0i119bifhoNuIgKXO6qC-wWYBGxbdQeyvwyoLNEraPI2tk9bC3-wxicuyP7UwXmjpuIS3sp3_HFkDFcQKgT5zIjxvE/s2110/IMG_3581.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2110" data-original-width="1676" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglVnD9pnwmApsoIrjTb6EM2BplHzdFf2HAH26XBABSKgtzLVd_WDQf4gYlk49O32weHjLN28zeqCtsP03TSEYF_zbSmaj0iiN0T0i119bifhoNuIgKXO6qC-wWYBGxbdQeyvwyoLNEraPI2tk9bC3-wxicuyP7UwXmjpuIS3sp3_HFkDFcQKgT5zIjxvE/w508-h640/IMG_3581.HEIC" width="508" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>The model was washed with some homemade black wash (equal parts floor polish and water then drops of paint to tint), dry brushed and all the details painted in. There's loads of roses and skulls all over these pieces and I added some rust spots in too for variety.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik4dXCBFO0h7pmSc3tXDRscmI3s9TUfcUDgZnCGkd2OEVKoNoC40-XkK_Gk_R0kpodEwGU6TuzqGUojcRFuvNwDDEfRGSAigJXPQjp4IAkOjJEmhZf2vGF-2v6ns7-J-SglY1BF-_KGui7YfzDDzNJbC_kdy7kRrL-r0EPQ7w_HMfxqeWMhbX1ZXCF_uo/s2749/IMG_3644.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1992" data-original-width="2749" height="464" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik4dXCBFO0h7pmSc3tXDRscmI3s9TUfcUDgZnCGkd2OEVKoNoC40-XkK_Gk_R0kpodEwGU6TuzqGUojcRFuvNwDDEfRGSAigJXPQjp4IAkOjJEmhZf2vGF-2v6ns7-J-SglY1BF-_KGui7YfzDDzNJbC_kdy7kRrL-r0EPQ7w_HMfxqeWMhbX1ZXCF_uo/w640-h464/IMG_3644.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>I'm looking forward to getting this to the table in the future, here's a couple of close ups, sorry about the background clutter, I'll take more pictures when my <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jonhodgsonmaptiles2/jon-hodgson-maps-backgrounds-book" target="_blank">Jon Hodgson</a> background books come.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPtWu12eQ3z6jkkPbB9ZZSrOoTTGmZhGM-67uO6MCfLQtADks-Ta_GE3J6VF7LCzSUDrb2doIDFWhzWENooDlt_NtNbDlamobxqiMQ3Jzuc439-JsPoqq5HUtgE4VMlXlNSD2fM4T8jrhcYGk6cSgx6hbPfHhD95iO4RB6g09U_si5rkGpQB5fwpfoMb0/s3118/IMG_3645.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2092" data-original-width="3118" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPtWu12eQ3z6jkkPbB9ZZSrOoTTGmZhGM-67uO6MCfLQtADks-Ta_GE3J6VF7LCzSUDrb2doIDFWhzWENooDlt_NtNbDlamobxqiMQ3Jzuc439-JsPoqq5HUtgE4VMlXlNSD2fM4T8jrhcYGk6cSgx6hbPfHhD95iO4RB6g09U_si5rkGpQB5fwpfoMb0/w640-h430/IMG_3645.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAYraY4_d4VQKRWQ9XVde81ChlOUPnIRl4wO0m1oyEpEXtmcolHkNHHJ5imZNQMejOSyKgJK-7eyZmlzleI60iHmoVpO_K0CcFrHv416EEXeWxX0abFmZfS-XKvD-FiUAP1cHvdpWszcZWU-khjQKMwBfJypW3u8YSsiuQ7bEay3A1_TK0VeCt_5fXJZ8/s3071/IMG_3646.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2446" data-original-width="3071" height="510" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAYraY4_d4VQKRWQ9XVde81ChlOUPnIRl4wO0m1oyEpEXtmcolHkNHHJ5imZNQMejOSyKgJK-7eyZmlzleI60iHmoVpO_K0CcFrHv416EEXeWxX0abFmZfS-XKvD-FiUAP1cHvdpWszcZWU-khjQKMwBfJypW3u8YSsiuQ7bEay3A1_TK0VeCt_5fXJZ8/w640-h510/IMG_3646.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><br />Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04189222731384311257noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808098292852471533.post-82708338055534053192023-08-29T20:55:00.000+01:002024-02-03T15:15:18.896+00:00Red Vectors three storey houses<p> One of things I've been wanting to do is finally bring Mordhiem to the table, I had the game back on it's release but clearly something more shiney came along and distracted us. Recently popping all my medieval / tudor terrain on to my town mats reignited that old dream.</p><p>Mordhiem is very terrain heavy and takes place in a ruined city, I have too many intact houses and not enough ruins. I have had the <a href="https://www.pendraken.co.uk/3-storey-houses-6034-p.asp" target="_blank">Red Vectors</a> buildings favourited for a little while so I recently decided to give them a look as there is very little information out there - no reviews and just a couple of painted examples.</p><p>Delivery, from <a href="https://www.pendraken.co.uk/" target="_blank">Pendraken</a>, was quick and the kit was well packaged. Just a large ziplock bag with a photo label, no instructions are included and as far as I can tell none are available online either.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAKzyDBOCPGD-wFqd9Gv1zjkOCR6t81urLdXThi2qPZ-mc2GKYP9Q9e9MivzS_Pb015Wg8cKcOv40mg-YNlqeHf4wki_nSQ4My0E8t4b5J9U9cSkb7Fquy2X8WOeXpn0IGvEI_u4mvEo88J7HNZJj93GFxRRCRc7J8rbNnOZ3NMiYWMchYqHtpZw4AXgE/s3264/IMG_3509.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="2448" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAKzyDBOCPGD-wFqd9Gv1zjkOCR6t81urLdXThi2qPZ-mc2GKYP9Q9e9MivzS_Pb015Wg8cKcOv40mg-YNlqeHf4wki_nSQ4My0E8t4b5J9U9cSkb7Fquy2X8WOeXpn0IGvEI_u4mvEo88J7HNZJj93GFxRRCRc7J8rbNnOZ3NMiYWMchYqHtpZw4AXgE/w480-h640/IMG_3509.HEIC" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Opening the pack, we find six sprues label A1 to 3 and B1 to 3. The parts are well cut and are easily removed. Looking at the illustrations it was easy to work out which pieces went where, I only had to sand down a couple of tabs, all the others went firmly in. In all but one place I glued together with a good quality DIY PVA glue.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9Hb5AawfvH4X5R287huEgLGD-P4IzIG45PMwxiX7D2oRhIpEMtce_iXROXlEO7Y7hxZJJgidFWFfCa2jcIpb1WsccxSe1L3cpws_N41O26DYV9Kec_4lSjZlrqD9KCcsM19tgeGSoFjMaWodO5rflJkWURtaD0a1_T4jGwLw8KVmAXHmi1eTNfVLjLk0/s3264/IMG_3510.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9Hb5AawfvH4X5R287huEgLGD-P4IzIG45PMwxiX7D2oRhIpEMtce_iXROXlEO7Y7hxZJJgidFWFfCa2jcIpb1WsccxSe1L3cpws_N41O26DYV9Kec_4lSjZlrqD9KCcsM19tgeGSoFjMaWodO5rflJkWURtaD0a1_T4jGwLw8KVmAXHmi1eTNfVLjLk0/w640-h480/IMG_3510.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>The houses are a good size and I think could be used individually or you could pair them as two halves of a bigger house with the center destroyed by pieces of the dreadful comet which destroyed the city, littering it with warpstone. The roof was glued and with elastic bands wrapped on to a square to get the right angle, to attach to the building I used thick superglue.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3tfnOkpmS0R71qr1AyO6z1BIyflyTTUUzYIBQreyw5UJxe1dzDLsHtbYtGGhRs39a7G_b6_agZuI0SBWgNxb42KXW56LaTfSIm6ir-cbbht5w2kZUXFSUFNaxAP8hLzlW13ktWcD60diC0WhL1iTy9hb12Canwfp1zOEB47jYI_y-BT6iUc1YW6YpPcE/s4032/PXL_20230818_183949789.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3tfnOkpmS0R71qr1AyO6z1BIyflyTTUUzYIBQreyw5UJxe1dzDLsHtbYtGGhRs39a7G_b6_agZuI0SBWgNxb42KXW56LaTfSIm6ir-cbbht5w2kZUXFSUFNaxAP8hLzlW13ktWcD60diC0WhL1iTy9hb12Canwfp1zOEB47jYI_y-BT6iUc1YW6YpPcE/w480-h640/PXL_20230818_183949789.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>The kits come with a number of mdf ladders and I'll need a make suitable walkways that link ruins together and give the game it's 3d nature.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl706FsuOFzR47wlGaGjHiBT9OVINQhc3Rl6rYcL-X3WJO4Z3B9fbL1jyHIFob-f12iqlo-_hAf7YLv5enVkXN3qZZI9IAPqQDVJQBk9M9I-49l-OW3yXE4kqA3QHtzbdXlzANRYA5OUz6kEAzXxXYYCkn4ntj5CagUoICSGxqHJiOkD6pYOX6TK18mi4/s4032/PXL_20230818_184026746.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl706FsuOFzR47wlGaGjHiBT9OVINQhc3Rl6rYcL-X3WJO4Z3B9fbL1jyHIFob-f12iqlo-_hAf7YLv5enVkXN3qZZI9IAPqQDVJQBk9M9I-49l-OW3yXE4kqA3QHtzbdXlzANRYA5OUz6kEAzXxXYYCkn4ntj5CagUoICSGxqHJiOkD6pYOX6TK18mi4/w480-h640/PXL_20230818_184026746.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>The buildings were easy to assemble but are a little too clean and straight. With a sharp scalpel blade I trimmed off many of the too square edges.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjItTPuY8Y3nHnEkphfLPZNDCz1fgxrUqRcpvKJ_M_HRSf728Xmk6kRRvh4xg7c9uyDbYJWGjUNu-3eVhPgWhaa5-tDD_92StzfHgz_xehl3dWPFNvqD8CtJiAqv9hf_-wn-UcGv2OGK-OOQfeDypYh3aIcRRXbvm0dZ76kqT6BC4GuYS7Cp0L8S-JTwhk/s4032/PXL_20230818_205509147.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjItTPuY8Y3nHnEkphfLPZNDCz1fgxrUqRcpvKJ_M_HRSf728Xmk6kRRvh4xg7c9uyDbYJWGjUNu-3eVhPgWhaa5-tDD_92StzfHgz_xehl3dWPFNvqD8CtJiAqv9hf_-wn-UcGv2OGK-OOQfeDypYh3aIcRRXbvm0dZ76kqT6BC4GuYS7Cp0L8S-JTwhk/w640-h480/PXL_20230818_205509147.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://warbases.co.uk/product-category/from-scratch/tiling-sheets/" target="_blank">Warbases</a> make some excellent tile sheets which can really speed up the tiling of roofs, I was too impatient to put an order in so reached for some white card and spend a little time cutting strips of tiles which where glued down with PVA, overlapping to the top, where I added a ridge tile. The completed tiles got several coats of neat PVA to harden them up.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSt73ssl7lfWAmI1lGdOG4IQmg4fy2VmOCrX-XbJkVAdGAIzsScP-t_xnFn9bBVyOYGq6qIjIMwPnwUNWhz4IPrBOQIHfLI00J2U69bp9Ic-Ur-9DggzKUC5qY0LroywvlmiWmEXhjA2dq_QTJFL39vsgUqlKd4OxDI-oYbh7IC5QkK52i64oAOnuYGfA/s3264/IMG_3528.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSt73ssl7lfWAmI1lGdOG4IQmg4fy2VmOCrX-XbJkVAdGAIzsScP-t_xnFn9bBVyOYGq6qIjIMwPnwUNWhz4IPrBOQIHfLI00J2U69bp9Ic-Ur-9DggzKUC5qY0LroywvlmiWmEXhjA2dq_QTJFL39vsgUqlKd4OxDI-oYbh7IC5QkK52i64oAOnuYGfA/w640-h480/IMG_3528.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>In order to add some texture to the plaster parts of the walls and the tiles, I mixed up some tile grout with PVA and a little water, adding it with an old brush, avoiding the wood.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-18udDNkxF2VX90yCIgo8fpYVvWltDlCM9Ppb1U_UEpP0eW4Zat4k-ceVaOdTD9QloK1y-rAyp09c7nYPx0F2Y5fC1-2nw5Qfya1AeLUd_hUrVuWnoKD7OeYv96BsWxm0YmlD_sIR_Zo08CqOMV9u78Njj6e-ktcpLExOAAwaJlNjv4oFUJ_7iMeEnFc/s3264/IMG_3529.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-18udDNkxF2VX90yCIgo8fpYVvWltDlCM9Ppb1U_UEpP0eW4Zat4k-ceVaOdTD9QloK1y-rAyp09c7nYPx0F2Y5fC1-2nw5Qfya1AeLUd_hUrVuWnoKD7OeYv96BsWxm0YmlD_sIR_Zo08CqOMV9u78Njj6e-ktcpLExOAAwaJlNjv4oFUJ_7iMeEnFc/w640-h480/IMG_3529.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>The tiles were painted with a suitable tester pot of blue grey emulsion paint, the walls were painted with a beige tone which was then dirtied with weathering powders, the wood work was painted an earth colour. The etched floorboards are a little large so I turned to the wood textures from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/crookedstaffterrain" target="_blank">Crooked Staff Terrain</a> glued to cereal box cardboard, then glued down to the MDF floors.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVgJBYJLasVuCrhxQT4CioeZzypXbUC5Rt-AKHkXFoEmn-v0uXwYamtIwqaaQajwBAlsbkuI4iqOEyc5jkbn_g00AcFDxiG1GC7PbrRMKv2sapZrxc069V091xTe-bCCI0S1-OCGqca4CyAQhvxH0xWMs-OngJ1PkTQ-aWoQ9Es4zYDS4TESlwiV9qxwQ/s2783/IMG_3554.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2376" data-original-width="2783" height="546" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVgJBYJLasVuCrhxQT4CioeZzypXbUC5Rt-AKHkXFoEmn-v0uXwYamtIwqaaQajwBAlsbkuI4iqOEyc5jkbn_g00AcFDxiG1GC7PbrRMKv2sapZrxc069V091xTe-bCCI0S1-OCGqca4CyAQhvxH0xWMs-OngJ1PkTQ-aWoQ9Es4zYDS4TESlwiV9qxwQ/w640-h546/IMG_3554.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>The next thing needed is some rubble piles which could be added inside or outside the houses, these will be free standing so they can be moved around as needed.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu-MU8Hzxa77WrJ3pHQeRtp0XdEDjRpLJxNpKERwlENesOs_w1IV8tXwidqYbxb1t26vppKHdbiJ0cH4L-J2cfqRj-im2GTYxPBMKvI3sdmxQoPkcCOCtXfXO_dvpLtytm90FWIniknRD1P6-1CBS5JlMYfBeAaMcWkGaCsDGA9w6BOjXY_A0XyhEmsrc/s2542/IMG_3555.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2219" data-original-width="2542" height="558" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu-MU8Hzxa77WrJ3pHQeRtp0XdEDjRpLJxNpKERwlENesOs_w1IV8tXwidqYbxb1t26vppKHdbiJ0cH4L-J2cfqRj-im2GTYxPBMKvI3sdmxQoPkcCOCtXfXO_dvpLtytm90FWIniknRD1P6-1CBS5JlMYfBeAaMcWkGaCsDGA9w6BOjXY_A0XyhEmsrc/w640-h558/IMG_3555.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I think these buildings were a success and I had fun assembling and painting them. I will certainly pick up the six pack next but en route as I type is the <a href="https://bitsofwar.com/frostgrave-official-terrain-series-ts/1472-city-ruins-5908291070236.html" target="_blank">Kromlech Frostgrave ruins</a>. This pack, appearing to be six buildings, is half timber with a stone base offering useful variety to my board,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My last post showed the <a href="https://www.manticgames.com/kings-of-war/featured-products/" target="_blank">Kings of War</a> army I had assembled from my prehistoric miniatures, proxying them for the Northern Alliance for Kings of War. I took the force to the club for an introduction to KoW. As can be expected with figures that had never seen a table and a new to me set of rules, I lost both games.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLGXrad1jIGQpuxPwnp_YJo0mJyU7FpMHfr3Z-f9i2NAbV0whT6CZd-HKzc03VIEkxPH17MfkPLYvWwnZEVDlkM3K48ZKGax0ga7LoTTwLOxxVY6mXzY53Wv-wOZCHdXUyg76Bi4t4iOCxLaZqBCq8GujTi4o3yqf55JIBloDzGbXvwZg-1_knnYzYqDk/s4032/PXL_20230820_140526655.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLGXrad1jIGQpuxPwnp_YJo0mJyU7FpMHfr3Z-f9i2NAbV0whT6CZd-HKzc03VIEkxPH17MfkPLYvWwnZEVDlkM3K48ZKGax0ga7LoTTwLOxxVY6mXzY53Wv-wOZCHdXUyg76Bi4t4iOCxLaZqBCq8GujTi4o3yqf55JIBloDzGbXvwZg-1_knnYzYqDk/w640-h480/PXL_20230820_140526655.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Kings of War is certainly a fast game, the rules only filling around twenty pages with much of the space in the rulebook being army lists. I find a game easier to understand once I've played it, it does seem to make more sense. We played the Ambush variant on a smaller table size, with little space for clever maneuvering.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1kZrXEqgmVDocdFDEHd2PrCjgrjDoyTKcIo4JS_pdreKeE5U9M26zsO3KSsXowTyZ7V7WxZkcPaPo28yHPghOyoyNKojZKUKfcVSkBX9hAsrhUprfDdWpfqjLqr2BemSq3qquYnmP5boW7G-OQTB-tzx5s11D1qyObHtPe4P_U_n-ndLFyMwcF2oOGTA/s4032/PXL_20230820_140530461.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1kZrXEqgmVDocdFDEHd2PrCjgrjDoyTKcIo4JS_pdreKeE5U9M26zsO3KSsXowTyZ7V7WxZkcPaPo28yHPghOyoyNKojZKUKfcVSkBX9hAsrhUprfDdWpfqjLqr2BemSq3qquYnmP5boW7G-OQTB-tzx5s11D1qyObHtPe4P_U_n-ndLFyMwcF2oOGTA/w640-h480/PXL_20230820_140530461.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>All of the units in the game have a specific purpose, attacks in to the flanks and rear double and triple attacks so even weak units can be deadly given enough dice to roll. I had lots of fun and I'll certainly be revisiting the rules but I won't be expanding this army as it is but instead replacing the proxies with their fantasy originals - in this case Elves, Dwarves and Men.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFpysBokDyaeJojd0-s-E-f3aBPpIgx3IjJa_Eqn-nJ_1clkyP24dgvqryF5zXpFBr5eKK5MX144ofgyghju3YosdUc6AO3gGG_FT7ipLFWv8W1f9f4bt6iZu3mIjM03HQR5LiAfkANgr4HdfBLNznMU5NJpwPFw6JLgp-Hzp3NojmTEu1-TMpFW04JQI/s4032/PXL_20230820_145359762.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFpysBokDyaeJojd0-s-E-f3aBPpIgx3IjJa_Eqn-nJ_1clkyP24dgvqryF5zXpFBr5eKK5MX144ofgyghju3YosdUc6AO3gGG_FT7ipLFWv8W1f9f4bt6iZu3mIjM03HQR5LiAfkANgr4HdfBLNznMU5NJpwPFw6JLgp-Hzp3NojmTEu1-TMpFW04JQI/w640-h480/PXL_20230820_145359762.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04189222731384311257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808098292852471533.post-84191520592555829952023-08-18T21:31:00.002+01:002023-08-18T21:31:00.154+01:00A Free Kings of War Army?<p> A few of our extended gaming group bought the Kings of War rulebook earlier in the year, it also is getting plenty of play at our local club, I thought I'd pick up the rulebook too.</p><p>The rulebook is softback and at 288 pages, I'd have preferred a hardback especially at the £35 price tag. The first 90 pages have the rules, army composition and scenarios whilst the rest of the book is army lists, 27 in total - all backgrounds have been moved online.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvZN09OryrosaG5-qnFzlWwsfRDYtxbeHIKFh4LPfxWVcHrNJ1vy3ikq7pdk3N26Tj4Cp6k5YVEGydo1nicXigUwb1U0PtxcJSsWJUvU0SrAXmqr8JGY2e1FMjVaVOVi4H13NsGBqRIR4p70ITCTE44MvLzPwoGZXOtJmFZZxboAelSWvOz5cnOIrsrOQ/s711/Screenshot%202023-08-13%20213618.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="711" data-original-width="501" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvZN09OryrosaG5-qnFzlWwsfRDYtxbeHIKFh4LPfxWVcHrNJ1vy3ikq7pdk3N26Tj4Cp6k5YVEGydo1nicXigUwb1U0PtxcJSsWJUvU0SrAXmqr8JGY2e1FMjVaVOVi4H13NsGBqRIR4p70ITCTE44MvLzPwoGZXOtJmFZZxboAelSWvOz5cnOIrsrOQ/s320/Screenshot%202023-08-13%20213618.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><br /><p>I'm not currently the owner of a fantasy army, I was debating adding wizards and some fantasy elements to my Wars of the Roses army but that seemed like a easy option and I had an idea about some figures stashed away in the collection.</p><p>A few years I was thinking of a Lost World style game with early Homo Sapiens fending off attacks from savage Neanderthals whilst dinosaurs react to the players and other beasts on the table. I bought and painted figures but never got anything to the table.</p><p>I looked through the rulebook to see if I could proxy what I have and I decided on Northern Alliance. Potentially when I have painted up the Oathmark figures I have, I could rebuild the army once more, here's what I used.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijYr3P969Bl5KmDoiOPh4wO0mXSZh-KPU-FHTUveJRI3P7xex1xyLHIH9VXmY-7ttxnYecr2MoEvChWwBeXbclVDnCpLy6bxSI6fMbWbjqMsgk9NVn0YOykQnkDGHAAhSc5Jmo7U1lqpwu-YbJO72_OsuwAHRZrNJevQQnagX9qg1y0VQ-SmWAQKouRHI/s3264/IMG_3494.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1409" data-original-width="3264" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijYr3P969Bl5KmDoiOPh4wO0mXSZh-KPU-FHTUveJRI3P7xex1xyLHIH9VXmY-7ttxnYecr2MoEvChWwBeXbclVDnCpLy6bxSI6fMbWbjqMsgk9NVn0YOykQnkDGHAAhSc5Jmo7U1lqpwu-YbJO72_OsuwAHRZrNJevQQnagX9qg1y0VQ-SmWAQKouRHI/w640-h276/IMG_3494.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b>Human Clansmen</b> - I have used my Copplestone Castings Cavemen here with a couple of Spear Armed Pulp Neanderthals.</li><li><b>Half-Elf Berserkers - </b>Here I've used the Pulp Figures Neanderthals as I imagined them as more savage than the Cavemen.</li><li><b>Pack Hunters</b> - Again, Copplestone Cavemen with bows, a couple of youths throwing rocks supplemented with a couple of 1st Corps Germanic Archers.</li><li><b>Snow Foxes</b> - The Velociraptors seemed the ideal fit, I don't recall the manufacturer - possibly HLBS.</li><li><b>Tundra Wolves</b> - This is the easy one, Wolves!</li><li><b>Snow Trolls </b>- Reaper Bones Ogres as they look significantly stone age.</li><li><b>Frostfang Cavalry</b> - Just a regiment sized group here, as no Hordes in the Ambush variant. Toy dinosaurs, available everywhere some or more toylike than others.</li></ul><div>With a selection of cheap magic items I can run this at 1000 points, drop the wolves and ogres and it's 750 points. I have more dinosaurs and a Mammoth in the stash to continue the army in this theme.</div><div><br /></div><p></p>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04189222731384311257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808098292852471533.post-10966291448374965812023-08-13T14:48:00.000+01:002023-08-13T14:48:06.102+01:00Painting Update August 2023<p> Lots of the things lately have kept me away from the painting table lately but I found some time to have a tidy up of things in progress and pushed some things in to the queue for varnishing and flocking. I found time to varnish and with the house to myself I cleared the desk and got ready to cover everything in green flock. I'm using a WWS Pro Grass Box and their 2mm Dead Grass.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxjFdbh0wJtf-xE7lU9EHygurIJGCHS525K1Ka_KT2F8oQr2py1AHAfttLTWWSoHVIy5qi4aw1ZjYD5KOz8hCEHJ-IH37MzkVNzOY8YK1T5AvdKJBExk-v9HxLCe_uPuycr-rASWE7mWHr__aJP_lAoxamO00yP6WlvAti3zBIxkRwIcI0ro6BT3iGOhU/s3264/IMG_3480.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxjFdbh0wJtf-xE7lU9EHygurIJGCHS525K1Ka_KT2F8oQr2py1AHAfttLTWWSoHVIy5qi4aw1ZjYD5KOz8hCEHJ-IH37MzkVNzOY8YK1T5AvdKJBExk-v9HxLCe_uPuycr-rASWE7mWHr__aJP_lAoxamO00yP6WlvAti3zBIxkRwIcI0ro6BT3iGOhU/w400-h300/IMG_3480.HEIC" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">There's quite a collection of figures and terrain bits finished, here's a shot of the weekend's work.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4phNFIbOFg9Q6mAFLoZVbBBu6jcb6HrhhJGKUInkGsCq0P4ExcmbQs9cuB9M_U0DyuKq2JdQdhpgBep6jmAfSG30kZ9Om9rftCWkAmMRln6feXxU0aId_980n2rHJIplOeHCDwtyaW5Ir9dRi1TVzsxkREetkIHfBRZ2tyIeiuDLzPH7Bcdg6sVpRZ_E/s2937/IMG_3482.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1473" data-original-width="2937" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4phNFIbOFg9Q6mAFLoZVbBBu6jcb6HrhhJGKUInkGsCq0P4ExcmbQs9cuB9M_U0DyuKq2JdQdhpgBep6jmAfSG30kZ9Om9rftCWkAmMRln6feXxU0aId_980n2rHJIplOeHCDwtyaW5Ir9dRi1TVzsxkREetkIHfBRZ2tyIeiuDLzPH7Bcdg6sVpRZ_E/w640-h320/IMG_3482.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">First up we have four explosion markers, these are 3D prints from Paul at <a href="https://www.sabotag3d.com/" target="_blank">www.sabotag3d.com</a>, I picked these up from a selection at OML in June.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvgenM4JgtnHekhuCc3tTuYQWm3W2iUHk_ueRDioB_SsvyQog24k5qm9_NXVXKLDycasjhtlUApj1i6kzVT-TWlGviLK9xg28Dw9gQWU9MZiIonWxG3dTZaH9EZ2nAbEWpbXFN_ypE9h8xllrqwrh_feNTdBaU8O6ECZKlZF2zWpTYOe0jJD5SxXHo8tQ/s2754/IMG_3483.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="2754" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvgenM4JgtnHekhuCc3tTuYQWm3W2iUHk_ueRDioB_SsvyQog24k5qm9_NXVXKLDycasjhtlUApj1i6kzVT-TWlGviLK9xg28Dw9gQWU9MZiIonWxG3dTZaH9EZ2nAbEWpbXFN_ypE9h8xllrqwrh_feNTdBaU8O6ECZKlZF2zWpTYOe0jJD5SxXHo8tQ/w640-h238/IMG_3483.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I've shown this handcard before, This was a giveaway from a Baron's War gaming day I attended, I have rebased it.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDre3IJ9lhWYR0Wzwk8HwrbgAjhLgSqPp0suKGiNJYgl3xK5dzSlDFDtAQfMoEGHqHR2ZsqUpbtJpVGNPNGgMxow96zUC9ZHrkpsYrxyY9QxoYRRJtgbzy3peMVEtMD--MeU6tWHCKTBWn49-BzNrxTiaZIZ7bVgscn9phkJ6bjzcYNbo2lP4yVjUL09E/s1281/IMG_3484.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1178" data-original-width="1281" height="368" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDre3IJ9lhWYR0Wzwk8HwrbgAjhLgSqPp0suKGiNJYgl3xK5dzSlDFDtAQfMoEGHqHR2ZsqUpbtJpVGNPNGgMxow96zUC9ZHrkpsYrxyY9QxoYRRJtgbzy3peMVEtMD--MeU6tWHCKTBWn49-BzNrxTiaZIZ7bVgscn9phkJ6bjzcYNbo2lP4yVjUL09E/w400-h368/IMG_3484.HEIC" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here's a fountain from Warbases from their <a href="https://warbases.co.uk/product-category/buildings/paris-1625/" target="_blank">Paris 1625</a> range, quite an easy build, this will work well in my late medieval and renaissance and later urban boards.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNZwFVWizTyTbWPnv-xxGqM2mBJAFLny87EYUVAR3mB0JDFNzaMTDyNAlQuhzXVz0nUHwD5jVqUZIqdyqwie3Iic9HOySiI6T3lFDnO8jx-0mggb8OfIJolgeCnd-jtbuPnvBb3vdlSON0ijnCi2RWmUl3u8shnEsaNqfZ7kIzgME-TDMUY7_uos3TBWk/s1741/IMG_3485.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1741" data-original-width="1265" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNZwFVWizTyTbWPnv-xxGqM2mBJAFLny87EYUVAR3mB0JDFNzaMTDyNAlQuhzXVz0nUHwD5jVqUZIqdyqwie3Iic9HOySiI6T3lFDnO8jx-0mggb8OfIJolgeCnd-jtbuPnvBb3vdlSON0ijnCi2RWmUl3u8shnEsaNqfZ7kIzgME-TDMUY7_uos3TBWk/w291-h400/IMG_3485.HEIC" width="291" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I had a need to use these wolves next weekend so I took the opportunity to rebase them to pill bases from the awful plastic 'shoulder' bases I put them on some years ago.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQhFUzFSo5kqNExNGK4hCpQ_zuBIy8rdw0lzXUrVsjuMwctAYwVmjJjUPFx7pcEWJohj5ygOYeJwfcReI8j75Gkh1JY7u7PiKSH2c5HxCGhe99BuXhenKQXz2rpE_LgxeitTclkeF25I8T50t6M-k41Zc797mF0vHhBVpHCze3iQM4O1yP12cy1xi1BBw/s2508/IMG_3486.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1041" data-original-width="2508" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQhFUzFSo5kqNExNGK4hCpQ_zuBIy8rdw0lzXUrVsjuMwctAYwVmjJjUPFx7pcEWJohj5ygOYeJwfcReI8j75Gkh1JY7u7PiKSH2c5HxCGhe99BuXhenKQXz2rpE_LgxeitTclkeF25I8T50t6M-k41Zc797mF0vHhBVpHCze3iQM4O1yP12cy1xi1BBw/w400-h166/IMG_3486.HEIC" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I've been collecting a few fantasy figures for a future fantasy skirmish project, the figure on the left is a 3D print, freely available on the internet, in the style of the original monopose plastic High Elves from the 4th edition Warhammer starter set. The figure on the right is an <a href="https://www.northstarfigures.com/list.php?cat=176&man=257&page=1" target="_blank">Oathmark</a> Elf with a horn hand from the <a href="https://www.grippingbeast.co.uk/GBP03_Dark_Age_Warriors--product--3276.html" target="_blank">Gripping Beast Dark Age Warriors</a> set.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih4PcaFC2QAcJIB2HJSEaA5Y5wHjWXRU6_Z7Z5d0tZ42XXW-LVvR3KK8aN1BEjfLL8mf4KaKrngZ4oVydjHW_FD7DevtR1f2CDbaHfVJtJaphGOQC5X8ZVfteDYIrM99B13oUOvUN7kYPNRVAakmxAiF0TKJsyHiZKScQfjmVBOYvviiWFG5jSWSh5Nao/s1506/IMG_3487.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1506" data-original-width="1415" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih4PcaFC2QAcJIB2HJSEaA5Y5wHjWXRU6_Z7Z5d0tZ42XXW-LVvR3KK8aN1BEjfLL8mf4KaKrngZ4oVydjHW_FD7DevtR1f2CDbaHfVJtJaphGOQC5X8ZVfteDYIrM99B13oUOvUN7kYPNRVAakmxAiF0TKJsyHiZKScQfjmVBOYvviiWFG5jSWSh5Nao/w376-h400/IMG_3487.HEIC" width="376" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A trio of figures for RPGs, a pair of Nothic's from Nolzur's Marvelous Miniatures - the official D&D figure line. The third figure is a simple kit bash where I've added a rat like face to a Frostgrave wizard to create Timpson, my now deceased wizard from our Dungeon Crawl Classics games. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8H1lMYoP-DZuPVG3-eAVsxd-jVpWWpz3GKg_fKauPPYNfXFcqsdSsQaGJ9R1DibrJHewHL59E8BKeCyuhqljrbf9LG7KwsGDE4vmm-MWZPle0p3S59kriRmVpy0EkHgK1LnFO2piIAgWr1xgkWVnKbXPIHh_S7Fi3UxQpwW5pdFEfpG78LSLNtn54B6o/s2132/IMG_3488.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="918" data-original-width="2132" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8H1lMYoP-DZuPVG3-eAVsxd-jVpWWpz3GKg_fKauPPYNfXFcqsdSsQaGJ9R1DibrJHewHL59E8BKeCyuhqljrbf9LG7KwsGDE4vmm-MWZPle0p3S59kriRmVpy0EkHgK1LnFO2piIAgWr1xgkWVnKbXPIHh_S7Fi3UxQpwW5pdFEfpG78LSLNtn54B6o/w640-h276/IMG_3488.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>On a whim, visiting Gloster Models I bought these Fireforge Rambukk Raiders, basically Dwarves riding big goats. Keep the spares from the sprues, with the extra torsos you will be able to make the command figures as extra foot models.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1pSz4vg9MAT1pr1gBwdaSd9QuF6ZGNoGtYLpheH1nlHJu__tktI5sQTg9ATEAiFuMFcwa4jg2lW948no3Lab-xT6vcSt5JogejT9wZbzQHkEXJtu4qMF-XunXzORXPWYHj4Wy5DUFL1twodEFRRUdfCYxB7l4QyIn61XrcwETss9q8dcuSMaoTEPFyAU/s2448/IMG_3489.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="819" data-original-width="2448" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1pSz4vg9MAT1pr1gBwdaSd9QuF6ZGNoGtYLpheH1nlHJu__tktI5sQTg9ATEAiFuMFcwa4jg2lW948no3Lab-xT6vcSt5JogejT9wZbzQHkEXJtu4qMF-XunXzORXPWYHj4Wy5DUFL1twodEFRRUdfCYxB7l4QyIn61XrcwETss9q8dcuSMaoTEPFyAU/w640-h214/IMG_3489.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Finally here's a pack of unarmoured civilians from <a href="https://www.crusaderminiatures.com/prod.php?prod=814" target="_blank">Crusader Miniatures</a>, they'll see action in Barons War games amongst others.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2k_1uxa4NWTOAHRG_LaenJ8XxVZ4sdJN_OSwDmSCSu4WRsTGc1evX2kyE8WnlZY1NAHS9s24sUDYR3uPg2mkVd3lHOHcRCo6SEO3oWxSNQk215AJQQFZ6t0ibnHUF92_2qoZa_q903dxZYQ_pVMKrTXw79ncbDO7Dq5oF0CrGY3QE8vHNjOHyS0CC0kU/s2370/IMG_3492.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1173" data-original-width="2370" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2k_1uxa4NWTOAHRG_LaenJ8XxVZ4sdJN_OSwDmSCSu4WRsTGc1evX2kyE8WnlZY1NAHS9s24sUDYR3uPg2mkVd3lHOHcRCo6SEO3oWxSNQk215AJQQFZ6t0ibnHUF92_2qoZa_q903dxZYQ_pVMKrTXw79ncbDO7Dq5oF0CrGY3QE8vHNjOHyS0CC0kU/w640-h316/IMG_3492.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><p>Next up, an unusual and unexpected army shot.</p>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04189222731384311257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808098292852471533.post-47135777802912338582023-07-29T16:51:00.000+01:002023-07-29T16:51:06.391+01:00Midlam Rangers and Palmerston Forts<p>Another Kickstarter has been fulfilled by Midlam Miniatures, this time it's the "Rangers of the Eastern Watch", as before lovely clean castings with very little by way of cleanup. When I saw these I immediately was reminded of the old Citadel "Bowmen of Oreon" regiment of renown from the 1980s.</p><p>There are a few changes from the stylistically similar assassins they released earlier, the cloaks here are longer and the clothing more ornate on the assassins. I may try a similar colour palette to tie them up as they do fit in well together.</p><p>Here's the ten miniatures, they all are carrying bows and swords, a couple have quarterstaffs, another couple lanterns and one with a horn.</p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDQM2Rbuo_QDMugvzsTj-KsJhlSXaJm-Q1sQrI_IYdgliJWCikrbZZDsFD2u-q_jzRkDpzV8YU9CudYwzqttUpH9XPfuTq16sb47D1BDB_0v8c7GhEF93-UvTLHwxeunIgcKEBzeo2L-i6as1WZw88tNMgtLGtu19t2g2Ri6EenWtPYabLxuU-JX4do5Y/s2321/IMG_3442.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="855" data-original-width="2321" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDQM2Rbuo_QDMugvzsTj-KsJhlSXaJm-Q1sQrI_IYdgliJWCikrbZZDsFD2u-q_jzRkDpzV8YU9CudYwzqttUpH9XPfuTq16sb47D1BDB_0v8c7GhEF93-UvTLHwxeunIgcKEBzeo2L-i6as1WZw88tNMgtLGtu19t2g2Ri6EenWtPYabLxuU-JX4do5Y/w640-h236/IMG_3442.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHvOcVB1bEmxvDPRsgAURnYHMXwrd-cbF9bgbFzMDrAg7BFIKWmytln7vSuf8f6RyzpzqxPnh9eQ-mOWm6K8gvwzW2ZV7JipQYKm_vaeN1FlmxMgRHkUZM1UCScGMI4z5dqzACBJ1PdgLH1S-20iuBqhy69L-vdvueAqt8xv4p9lx4bhzWtGbFYq7ugiQ/s2123/IMG_3441.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="764" data-original-width="2123" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHvOcVB1bEmxvDPRsgAURnYHMXwrd-cbF9bgbFzMDrAg7BFIKWmytln7vSuf8f6RyzpzqxPnh9eQ-mOWm6K8gvwzW2ZV7JipQYKm_vaeN1FlmxMgRHkUZM1UCScGMI4z5dqzACBJ1PdgLH1S-20iuBqhy69L-vdvueAqt8xv4p9lx4bhzWtGbFYq7ugiQ/w640-h230/IMG_3441.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here's a comparison shot comparing a couple of the Rangers with a Victrix Norman, a Footsore Baron's War Knight and an Oathmark Elf. I think these are all pretty compatible height wise with the Footsore Knight being a little slight in comparison with the others.</div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEwltoIO5BMxXW6pXGmuTVjukFmBFO01WovX7nFxz-R-pSdeZncpzXywj-MXJ7VQ4zRdxRf3z6Gyzg1iGFiTmHWBkGyvDQJp2kKfmTkeurF3YoxZoOx-c0g2UftXx6FYD8JpLJrdbUEnD_z51VJBPJXSZ3pmIkr9w92CWlGbwQWE5sYHkZkc3PfI7P9I4/s3787/PXL_20230726_185352031.MP.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1700" data-original-width="3787" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEwltoIO5BMxXW6pXGmuTVjukFmBFO01WovX7nFxz-R-pSdeZncpzXywj-MXJ7VQ4zRdxRf3z6Gyzg1iGFiTmHWBkGyvDQJp2kKfmTkeurF3YoxZoOx-c0g2UftXx6FYD8JpLJrdbUEnD_z51VJBPJXSZ3pmIkr9w92CWlGbwQWE5sYHkZkc3PfI7P9I4/w400-h180/PXL_20230726_185352031.MP.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My partner and I had a last minute day out to the seaside this week, I managed to find a Type 25 pillbox on Uphill beach near Weston Super Mare. We could see Brean Down from the beach and I'd read there was a fort there so off to the car!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgGM3FYbyBvoC2x0RR_cCc3SGFvkY2xNsUzpIczu_wXSokHjteF_r93F-mLDwARqPbvRlmw1PKW_pHFbHlhaFswt1uewG3zCZkiVJNw2MHkruB8BW8m9_DRZhQmeTQr_xTMgDRgu9-6KqFBaDxkyec5wyNbJjCnE4UzNi6IWDREaJIq5CJgeChwGU9yRg/s4032/PXL_20230727_094817966.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgGM3FYbyBvoC2x0RR_cCc3SGFvkY2xNsUzpIczu_wXSokHjteF_r93F-mLDwARqPbvRlmw1PKW_pHFbHlhaFswt1uewG3zCZkiVJNw2MHkruB8BW8m9_DRZhQmeTQr_xTMgDRgu9-6KqFBaDxkyec5wyNbJjCnE4UzNi6IWDREaJIq5CJgeChwGU9yRg/w400-h300/PXL_20230727_094817966.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Brean Down is owned and maintained by the National Trust, there has been habitation here back to the Bronze Age. Climb the steps up to the top of the hill then walk the country mile to the end of the peninsula we eventually see the Fort.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This is a "Palmerston" Fort, built in the Victorian era after concerns regarding expansion of the French Navy, Palmerston was the prime minister at this time, The fort originally was armed with 7 7" guns and manned by the Royal Artillery.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQQ5-Eqa_PPtGC46vE9ee50szweUqZc70zrXHGkHpSunhdkIzHrVjyAC00HDoRQecZnJ29mjte2BEwKCAJf1RRH5NRCCGOOLaUP6u3MAf7LBix1sfSAlXE355KfcnUcJCjJB7UHrY4Gh9E6FQFEXbe7JTJ2zcUW7hizxwSjDQRv_RQMrZgr1ThfyR2VE0/s4032/PXL_20230727_124130896.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQQ5-Eqa_PPtGC46vE9ee50szweUqZc70zrXHGkHpSunhdkIzHrVjyAC00HDoRQecZnJ29mjte2BEwKCAJf1RRH5NRCCGOOLaUP6u3MAf7LBix1sfSAlXE355KfcnUcJCjJB7UHrY4Gh9E6FQFEXbe7JTJ2zcUW7hizxwSjDQRv_RQMrZgr1ThfyR2VE0/w640-h480/PXL_20230727_124130896.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Much of the structures are dangerous and have warnings against entry,</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSnRjVyDmgQAByeCg3Acffwf329IVxnrTi9w4IVKe5cQUjrMlrMC5xftMLOgHwLHsh0GqV2LWcV8IWtGzyswAuFea1t4EJpkq8caeJSUKQJvlRDxeuK1xxefBVcbEv1uuZxdtiG0bneynRdpuZPUR-v0sW6TFZQCpljmYGg0Vtm1Ndqr4i3XnHw4-o3Pw/s4032/PXL_20230727_124805178.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSnRjVyDmgQAByeCg3Acffwf329IVxnrTi9w4IVKe5cQUjrMlrMC5xftMLOgHwLHsh0GqV2LWcV8IWtGzyswAuFea1t4EJpkq8caeJSUKQJvlRDxeuK1xxefBVcbEv1uuZxdtiG0bneynRdpuZPUR-v0sW6TFZQCpljmYGg0Vtm1Ndqr4i3XnHw4-o3Pw/w640-h480/PXL_20230727_124805178.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The fort's style is reminiscent of classic european military architecture with it's sharp corners and killing grounds complete with "arrow" slits.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjozl9ENACTzeGbKvH7-ZHV-0UqdDkpBdK3n0MrNG7Hnaw9WciN2WH9cKqkaLsLHuwRl1GOrE19KuF6AM6-h3euebIbyYjQC37meemI1pWgKuJG0_sId0Jjd9tuqOIvMW1JSjOWlzd0b8dL2kOqfXKv23_-JDl-i2pbS8tQBdsQgDbJ5r06_66BwGyicqo/s4032/PXL_20230727_124946820.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjozl9ENACTzeGbKvH7-ZHV-0UqdDkpBdK3n0MrNG7Hnaw9WciN2WH9cKqkaLsLHuwRl1GOrE19KuF6AM6-h3euebIbyYjQC37meemI1pWgKuJG0_sId0Jjd9tuqOIvMW1JSjOWlzd0b8dL2kOqfXKv23_-JDl-i2pbS8tQBdsQgDbJ5r06_66BwGyicqo/w640-h480/PXL_20230727_124946820.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Attacking the fort from inland would have faced withering fire and the wide trench.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQCfGNxmMd38TacdaRiFcyJjJvJVszSfDtey9jRG51DlTp9a2STowcGzSGxKwbbCbWBQf_xmGG8M2HxyY9SfCuEHMUUIUPazdn0TG6_iWDaUGrnSJ8VSCu9gWNB9cbHLZaEam2QrwzYke9_3ubHb2mFNS8hWylWFtQ6JcyXO3-4MCSo_EI_r-niTXoM5U/s4032/PXL_20230727_125154986.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQCfGNxmMd38TacdaRiFcyJjJvJVszSfDtey9jRG51DlTp9a2STowcGzSGxKwbbCbWBQf_xmGG8M2HxyY9SfCuEHMUUIUPazdn0TG6_iWDaUGrnSJ8VSCu9gWNB9cbHLZaEam2QrwzYke9_3ubHb2mFNS8hWylWFtQ6JcyXO3-4MCSo_EI_r-niTXoM5U/w640-h480/PXL_20230727_125154986.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Below is a searchlight post from WW2 when the fort was remanned, it originally had a cantilever roof but the wind and weather have flipped it back to rest on the roof. The rails to the right were used to trial a seaborne bouncing bomb, the bomb was to be launched into the sea when it hits the buffer at the end of the line. Alas it all caught fire, exploded taking the whole lot to the sea.<div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeMcktWo-74trq5GyGaIdr0DzQAUDt1WQFScNgTNGXBxsEcVieCcqGD1nSXJIrlsUVYjUzTp29s4PyKrLk48QGiYbQSCByad--XS22adnr-8-FnVRUbIXFgs27FHkqIYamAHJ5EJoyP2lXOXWnyC6CpRJX7NIAJY4JFWd8-TKwhtpnEDS-Ynd0e4fC8Qs/s4032/PXL_20230727_125654385.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeMcktWo-74trq5GyGaIdr0DzQAUDt1WQFScNgTNGXBxsEcVieCcqGD1nSXJIrlsUVYjUzTp29s4PyKrLk48QGiYbQSCByad--XS22adnr-8-FnVRUbIXFgs27FHkqIYamAHJ5EJoyP2lXOXWnyC6CpRJX7NIAJY4JFWd8-TKwhtpnEDS-Ynd0e4fC8Qs/w640-h480/PXL_20230727_125654385.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Below is a WW2 gun emplacement, armed with 6" gun taken from scrapped WW1 ships, evident in the photo is the many lockers for ready ammunition. Originally there was a "plastic" roof to protect from overhead attack.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKTEI7RXaDXTcQEqPUoUDSrgUYoikhrEKlE1K2pRrsQiCnbp7WW1Pp63o92TWhwRJlOmxSJr62qyIbWAHmgcyJJ480pW4Cb_QoU3HXRF5nbcGZRRnKvWYWAXL7tdv8ITV_LEVJTm9aNve2ZMBspoblG-caFSK9_xGUr4Kj-dkzfpX9cOJ1DRQNJiJq2GA/s4032/PXL_20230727_130002679.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKTEI7RXaDXTcQEqPUoUDSrgUYoikhrEKlE1K2pRrsQiCnbp7WW1Pp63o92TWhwRJlOmxSJr62qyIbWAHmgcyJJ480pW4Cb_QoU3HXRF5nbcGZRRnKvWYWAXL7tdv8ITV_LEVJTm9aNve2ZMBspoblG-caFSK9_xGUr4Kj-dkzfpX9cOJ1DRQNJiJq2GA/w640-h480/PXL_20230727_130002679.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>These slits only face the trench and like medieval arrow slits in castles provide excellent cover for the troops inside.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCXSMdmJ00HTAiqr77N-7kfHKPv6boFbaxnB86ZkqrFExhnOgGzikUX6JOenhPTYZCCxVNdSqGFKzvBho2Esa2ICEZtBhZSO2dPgEClRmBqkntemVbyGFDueBWWsCmvC613rlml2qQ09N--i615HtWP4gHstTmqSJpjToPDiDmKT_bJV__xFhQrxhK-WY/s4032/PXL_20230727_131115788.MP.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCXSMdmJ00HTAiqr77N-7kfHKPv6boFbaxnB86ZkqrFExhnOgGzikUX6JOenhPTYZCCxVNdSqGFKzvBho2Esa2ICEZtBhZSO2dPgEClRmBqkntemVbyGFDueBWWsCmvC613rlml2qQ09N--i615HtWP4gHstTmqSJpjToPDiDmKT_bJV__xFhQrxhK-WY/w640-h480/PXL_20230727_131115788.MP.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>We found a final pillbox on the return to the car, I believe this on to be part of the bombing range nearby, there is a large arrow directing the pilots out to sea.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9Nu1T2tqaW5PThRt2L5Vvrgt6JJ60ukJW1mC-lXwoR5kq5qSi7VEIQSfbWKD3I4p_gQNQutK_TfZ7xqhaaEzyIWnHDln5PJksCUXeJp-2fqrPVca56mJXUokubOySXD4L8rihHO493fb787uW43rmm4XmLFIpX4ULC2q2e4pytqfRgqR33oKN6-eZhlM/s4032/PXL_20230727_134253509.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9Nu1T2tqaW5PThRt2L5Vvrgt6JJ60ukJW1mC-lXwoR5kq5qSi7VEIQSfbWKD3I4p_gQNQutK_TfZ7xqhaaEzyIWnHDln5PJksCUXeJp-2fqrPVca56mJXUokubOySXD4L8rihHO493fb787uW43rmm4XmLFIpX4ULC2q2e4pytqfRgqR33oKN6-eZhlM/w640-h480/PXL_20230727_134253509.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>I had this Warbases Parisian Fountain floating around on the desk for a while, rather than put it away, I quickly assembled it, it'll make for a nice centre piece for a town square.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-1OmyDMlpE37c_tdNZM2jKeV3BRAIsc022yYvqRK37ERiOVU3DxPRyuMOS5xaW6sRVS-_bx7p_0Xd0hjflvVUgaKDtW2ka39i8bWQva8nHUbi_CtxSjRuaf2QdScC2425SmNw5fF06yfqqY-eOt35yfUFDG8kQTLTyGOOTFLUGw-Sd2agTAYq_r5IJqQ/s4032/PXL_20230729_142823483.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-1OmyDMlpE37c_tdNZM2jKeV3BRAIsc022yYvqRK37ERiOVU3DxPRyuMOS5xaW6sRVS-_bx7p_0Xd0hjflvVUgaKDtW2ka39i8bWQva8nHUbi_CtxSjRuaf2QdScC2425SmNw5fF06yfqqY-eOt35yfUFDG8kQTLTyGOOTFLUGw-Sd2agTAYq_r5IJqQ/w480-h640/PXL_20230729_142823483.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04189222731384311257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808098292852471533.post-8013965416543936472023-07-19T18:18:00.000+01:002023-07-19T18:18:52.205+01:00In praise of tiny (and tinier) men<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Every now and again its always good to get something to the table that hasn't been seen in a while, Stuart had some modern adaptations for Bolt Action which mixed with some ideas like the hidden Momentum dice that limit how many order dice you will draw.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Adapted from a WW2 scenario, to win each side had to seize the high ground from their opponent. Stuart fielded North Koreans with T55 and T62 tanks alongside Infantry and AFVs. I had South Koreans, M60 tanks with armoured infantry, anti tank and self propelled mortars reinforced with a British battleground on my high ground.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Koreans where deployed forward, holding the town, fields and woods in front of the attacking North. The British held the high ground at the rear taking cover in the woods with the artillery and armoured infantry behind.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBbsBmc0I2RulgqaaYauNp7as4WD2ZCPxi2RJZnWagogHnr0TjqkmCyg7eR6ILunvRdndmF5yrlQqjK16jVoEg72oq8z8btebEmXIfEOwPf5tWR0zrIFAzIw4Btsy7yJG9U3-llf5mdUVtRxfq4TZx_nBOQRR-2HkhklEwcOumaNUAvo5ZOopuNAvtgjY/s3264/IMG_3394.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="2448" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBbsBmc0I2RulgqaaYauNp7as4WD2ZCPxi2RJZnWagogHnr0TjqkmCyg7eR6ILunvRdndmF5yrlQqjK16jVoEg72oq8z8btebEmXIfEOwPf5tWR0zrIFAzIw4Btsy7yJG9U3-llf5mdUVtRxfq4TZx_nBOQRR-2HkhklEwcOumaNUAvo5ZOopuNAvtgjY/w480-h640/IMG_3394.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><div><br /></div>British armour took up their positions in the woodline, hoping to take advantage of their better range and fire control.<div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrDMpz3-0ErYM9dwR400jwsTqn_RrwpSr_q7U-LR8yAc6mLhMnwloHBPsyvLY_NRr6XF0Dq5LjbqIb6Rc-UkPRkg1byZ6TXCKx3u0n2eoTl5yEBU0Bb5_kSFkloL10TO0mpKtnP4o6mXlXOh2_8EkqX3kIUnVeIqpKiFogu-Kkr2XG_3ugHNgCsESLPx8/s3264/IMG_3397.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrDMpz3-0ErYM9dwR400jwsTqn_RrwpSr_q7U-LR8yAc6mLhMnwloHBPsyvLY_NRr6XF0Dq5LjbqIb6Rc-UkPRkg1byZ6TXCKx3u0n2eoTl5yEBU0Bb5_kSFkloL10TO0mpKtnP4o6mXlXOh2_8EkqX3kIUnVeIqpKiFogu-Kkr2XG_3ugHNgCsESLPx8/w640-h480/IMG_3397.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>The South Koreans dug themselves in to the town, paddies and woods. I was hoping to delay them there and bring down the artillery on them as they are bunched up on the road.</div><div> </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-mwVeSa7lv5zPbnKCSHhPtnDfXYovGRqF1dPXJ3_MFmqCdZIqIKaVYFkx4Q0HTe3M8gQIpZVqFBNZKksUBu3s7aO7x06MxaUkNL81NAHDyPdGTl_MXnMMK89Q4p2pV-Jd7_5K0TS7K9Yfve0brRijUuGmeOnjNJMUS0ZsmcOVoQKRWVwOt9NTh2cI6a8/s3264/IMG_3398.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="2448" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-mwVeSa7lv5zPbnKCSHhPtnDfXYovGRqF1dPXJ3_MFmqCdZIqIKaVYFkx4Q0HTe3M8gQIpZVqFBNZKksUBu3s7aO7x06MxaUkNL81NAHDyPdGTl_MXnMMK89Q4p2pV-Jd7_5K0TS7K9Yfve0brRijUuGmeOnjNJMUS0ZsmcOVoQKRWVwOt9NTh2cI6a8/w480-h640/IMG_3398.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here's a shot from about midway in the game, the North were slowed down by the artillery, engaged by the Korean armour and Anti Tank units. Before long they pulled out of the woods and headed down to the paddies but their movement dice let them down and they found themselves in range of the British Challenger tanks, who in two turns did significant damage and broke the attack.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhISZYbwWOIxYKwbpYfLEyHWiDj_p2YHY0F4C5W4OVNlS8o8y91atyBekNZjo2yoOxz_QoQ-Vhzy61HPSYauj02Zn3Is4NfrE-HDgmNfMzxjYxI6BrfkRqO2Qr6gC-iP0WNqTKq8SGaN7PUsnKbLRzPBeRF7As3wipPWPbidwDDYeDCUtxpfdWuZJ-Gm2Y/s3264/IMG_3400.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhISZYbwWOIxYKwbpYfLEyHWiDj_p2YHY0F4C5W4OVNlS8o8y91atyBekNZjo2yoOxz_QoQ-Vhzy61HPSYauj02Zn3Is4NfrE-HDgmNfMzxjYxI6BrfkRqO2Qr6gC-iP0WNqTKq8SGaN7PUsnKbLRzPBeRF7As3wipPWPbidwDDYeDCUtxpfdWuZJ-Gm2Y/w640-h480/IMG_3400.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br />Whilst I was there, Vlad and I had been talking about 2mm Napoleonics. After my success with Strength and Honour I was interested in doing some big battles without the issues of scale and table size. Expecting a couple of strips I was passed a baggie which when unpacked had over 100 battalions, skirmish screens and artillery, more than enough to do the French in the Northern Sector at Leipzig.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCM5oZxU0kFqz8-VjZkibfzsaG9nbcoTA1Hcsenejrsddzk6kOuDZ88RI5Bcr4UrhPSg0K9V0La1fv18rUcXr4VPVcCPl9BxpAXrvmgZqmFrU0FqBmT03sd8qjd6IqfQG84e194ElIcv688Myv8UlZIl5DcFo3HBog0CHlYPG8pYQFhTsvtqWEoiHhgmo/s2938/IMG_3412.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="987" data-original-width="2938" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCM5oZxU0kFqz8-VjZkibfzsaG9nbcoTA1Hcsenejrsddzk6kOuDZ88RI5Bcr4UrhPSg0K9V0La1fv18rUcXr4VPVcCPl9BxpAXrvmgZqmFrU0FqBmT03sd8qjd6IqfQG84e194ElIcv688Myv8UlZIl5DcFo3HBog0CHlYPG8pYQFhTsvtqWEoiHhgmo/w640-h216/IMG_3412.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p></div><div>It'll be interesting to see how these paint up, they are essentially squares, the Strength and Honour figures were cylinders.</div><div><br /></div>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04189222731384311257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808098292852471533.post-51639137505637463942023-07-15T17:57:00.000+01:002023-07-15T17:57:44.987+01:00Victrix Norman Infantry - a mini review<p> Following on from my recent game of To The Strongest! I looked around at my collection to what I could use in future games and in future games of Impetus as well. </p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Early Imperial Romans - these are ready to go possibly even to two armies for a civil war type game.</li><li>German tribesmen - initially allies for the Romans but some time ago I started a pack of plastic Victrix Germans, finishing these and adding another unit of cavalry will bring them up to a suitable size.</li><li>Hoplite Greek - this will be a more long term goal although I have plenty of sprues, I would just need some cavalry.</li><li>Normans - I've been resurrecting this army for a couple of years now, rebasing, swapping spears and touching up any scrapes. Looking at the TTS lists I could see I'd be needing more infantry, I did think of pricing up some Footsore but first I wanted to try the Victrix plastics as they would make a significant saving.</li></ul><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It's great that is possible to pick single sprues on eBay, it makes it easy to add extra sprues if needed or as I'm doing here, checking them out without committing to a large pack. Eight figures on the sprue split between mailed and padded / unarmoured, figures can be armed with spears or hand weapons. These are multipart figures and not multipose, they have chosen three different head mounts, even when you have the dished joint it will only fit one way. I'd have preferred a common mounting so all the head options could be used across all the models as it is the choice is from two to seven, cutting down the built options.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRblVM9j8yR9c9DVn8KhxrDKPrHNIlhVSBDeG1WKeIsPYJSkF_qpH50Xka5jIijQZTHRIRWTeAge-IMNX2gagBRc6AgnWxWbjTXF5zQj_aKgxl0DNG8ULEpcpMQmshgeJZByv8luzIRkfKwbHrYp6EXVpvPVaWhW2KcJfiM2_4-s6bW6UoP72R1G2bEwo/s3264/IMG_3353.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="2448" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRblVM9j8yR9c9DVn8KhxrDKPrHNIlhVSBDeG1WKeIsPYJSkF_qpH50Xka5jIijQZTHRIRWTeAge-IMNX2gagBRc6AgnWxWbjTXF5zQj_aKgxl0DNG8ULEpcpMQmshgeJZByv8luzIRkfKwbHrYp6EXVpvPVaWhW2KcJfiM2_4-s6bW6UoP72R1G2bEwo/w480-h640/IMG_3353.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Typical Norman tear dropped shields are on the sprue, these are either flat or dished, the detail on the backs of the shield is very good and will look great painted.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHN9LJuPgRTzntw6qCtebmZ9N9XCiCW1VuK00fQSS-ntK7zDdxXi8cPhZ3r6toPPCJgheP17xsgZ7WWLSbwo0glse6reLVhw8x_R8w3JlXH8657oNXTEO-Y2c23UI7lqeXSwRPfP_YJBrECNWBRWQh-NQg1bby-rZDyh_nVhssdIc082LyRIYoNI65W4I/s1358/IMG_3354.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1358" data-original-width="1271" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHN9LJuPgRTzntw6qCtebmZ9N9XCiCW1VuK00fQSS-ntK7zDdxXi8cPhZ3r6toPPCJgheP17xsgZ7WWLSbwo0glse6reLVhw8x_R8w3JlXH8657oNXTEO-Y2c23UI7lqeXSwRPfP_YJBrECNWBRWQh-NQg1bby-rZDyh_nVhssdIc082LyRIYoNI65W4I/w187-h200/IMG_3354.JPG" width="187" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I grabbed some of the painted Normans from storage. The second and sixth are from Gripping Beast, whilst the forth is from Crusader. The height of the figures varies with their pose but I think these will work, I'll add them to the paint queue and look to picking up a pack along with the matching shield transfers later in the year.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKkazUe-IE0K6M8ICkbBWOKG6kQQS6RwZ0QmqX7J7nzV87EbkF8P3VLj64tE-JoX-dXqeKaoMASwnKM7Ksa7pnuXKsPJK7nNdxztnKVDJeAIVVochmabgtCcBsHdONJnL3ej2s6IYl1tKqorftvwic7XLB8GeJIKOJqKLMD8L8t2ipOh1ZbD6d2bvIrNI/s2733/IMG_3388.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="808" data-original-width="2733" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKkazUe-IE0K6M8ICkbBWOKG6kQQS6RwZ0QmqX7J7nzV87EbkF8P3VLj64tE-JoX-dXqeKaoMASwnKM7Ksa7pnuXKsPJK7nNdxztnKVDJeAIVVochmabgtCcBsHdONJnL3ej2s6IYl1tKqorftvwic7XLB8GeJIKOJqKLMD8L8t2ipOh1ZbD6d2bvIrNI/w640-h190/IMG_3388.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04189222731384311257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808098292852471533.post-25968272021281923502023-07-06T21:16:00.002+01:002023-07-06T21:16:43.150+01:00A return to To The Strongest!?<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">After a break of what's probably at least three years I have played another game of <a href="https://bigredbatshop.co.uk/" target="_blank">To The Strongest!</a> One of the other club members at Wyre Forest was a player and we planned a Wars of the Roses game which got postponed several times due to holidays and others things.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">At last we planned our armies, I was surprised how little 130 points got me, my opponent had gaps in his collection and he had more Men-at-Arms, not a problem. I did have some issues with the army spreadsheet used for building forces then realised my army lists had been superseded.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The new lists have changed a little so I had to do a last minute rewrite. I went with foot spread across three commands and a single unit of cheap Border Staves. Harry's army was smaller and spread over two commands. I won the scouting and got to react to his first deployment.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvj5G6qOXfX6Qe7X23O5w0fotjFEurX8yxe5EjyVO8BjmKj4PupgdQk1cXhBnZXLeTzbYpLbhz7SMadASDaA35tZhoUTcRSWUoi3Xhl8dzRYhxpwaR11RHNoO8OoQ8XemuY-10eN1sfdEiTd9S8slIplokLZ-_KnkyGpXNXn3z003cgaFKOc0Xqw2gV64/s4032/PXL_20230702_133814916.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvj5G6qOXfX6Qe7X23O5w0fotjFEurX8yxe5EjyVO8BjmKj4PupgdQk1cXhBnZXLeTzbYpLbhz7SMadASDaA35tZhoUTcRSWUoi3Xhl8dzRYhxpwaR11RHNoO8OoQ8XemuY-10eN1sfdEiTd9S8slIplokLZ-_KnkyGpXNXn3z003cgaFKOc0Xqw2gV64/w640-h480/PXL_20230702_133814916.MP.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My plan, such as it was, was to advance to contact and hope to have thinned his ranks before contact.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzc8FVWZm4WgptnPqKXF1HG0omOzyHKOklgQalE1my3gnvvoP1f5T5g6h7ABbIpOBq0BHLzoV7KB45w3i2JOJOIwgM73_7VJfsAQ7SOt05FUtB_saUkurLYYYbO_3RQtAaJK2VWIPFTx4gL4GWix-DqiU6g2vh_Eg9qDtpG3Ysi7aE4GZksgwWKCe9G5E/s4032/PXL_20230702_135439789.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzc8FVWZm4WgptnPqKXF1HG0omOzyHKOklgQalE1my3gnvvoP1f5T5g6h7ABbIpOBq0BHLzoV7KB45w3i2JOJOIwgM73_7VJfsAQ7SOt05FUtB_saUkurLYYYbO_3RQtAaJK2VWIPFTx4gL4GWix-DqiU6g2vh_Eg9qDtpG3Ysi7aE4GZksgwWKCe9G5E/w640-h480/PXL_20230702_135439789.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>Sending the horse up the flank caused him to have to react with his cavalry or lose his camp, he would become mired in this wood for a while.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx2AgbWRLrxJlxhErxtQt9ekdmC6JBtcU-R2KbaWK4q9iVUC4x1PonXOm_a733L2mna59P9uXjxAcS_iuRq-TSaMRFQ7WM_UsPh1u8LBC3_e45PlmU3I7A4KL63lqNnD596Ax5M3xj8Xhu9e7mq86cc-AH3Y05tCvGDc_rWvWTys0YwV58J3aaqi0sH4E/s4032/PXL_20230702_140615924.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx2AgbWRLrxJlxhErxtQt9ekdmC6JBtcU-R2KbaWK4q9iVUC4x1PonXOm_a733L2mna59P9uXjxAcS_iuRq-TSaMRFQ7WM_UsPh1u8LBC3_e45PlmU3I7A4KL63lqNnD596Ax5M3xj8Xhu9e7mq86cc-AH3Y05tCvGDc_rWvWTys0YwV58J3aaqi0sH4E/w640-h480/PXL_20230702_140615924.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />In the end my numbers were telling and I was able to grind him down, wiping out his units and forcing him back to his table edge, eventually winning 11-5 but we both had some shocking luck, drawing ones on initial commands.<p></p><p>To The Strongest! is a fun and fast game, the squared playing surface takes away all the issues with measurements and ranges, melees are fast to resolve. Many players find using playing cards faster to play but I find the use of the mdf chits more discreet as just as fast and no shuffling.</p><p>I have the new lists now and with the Wars of the Roses list I can also field Principate Romans (Early Imperial to you and me) and with some more painting Batavian Revolt Germanics. With a smallish purchase and a bunch of painting, Normans and Hoplite Greek. All these armies will also be quite playable in Hail Caesar and Basic Impetus.</p><p><br /></p>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04189222731384311257noreply@blogger.com0